GREAT SURINAM SPIDER. 
posed size, which is .-considered as larger than 
the Egg of a Domestic Hen. The square 
shape of the fore-part of the body might, 
perhaps, be accidental, or only apparent in a 
particular position ; and the excessive hairiness, 
as described, is not sufficiently manifest in our 
figure, which is copied from the Planches En- 
luminees. 
The star-like mark, however, is a positive 
character : and it is chiefly from this, in con- 
junction with other circumstances, that we are, 
induced to consider his Bush Spider, and our 
Great Spider, both of Surinam, as one and. the 
same insect. 
