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SPECIES III. — A. Pallidulus. 
PALISH - SPIDER. 
Females of this fpecles were found fitting in clofe cells, in the middle of July, on trees, 
watching their bags of eggs. Plate i, fig. 4. They were unequal in fize, and the fmaller 
ones had often a greater number of eggs than the larger. 
The eyes are large; their fituation is fbewn at plate 2, fig. 10. The legs are fhort, and 
thick ; their relative proportion 4, 2, i, and 3. They are more or lefs brownifh, or glaucous, 
and guarded with unequal hairs, briftles, and prickles. The abdomen long, ovate, more or 
lefs glaucous or brownifh, and equally downy, is without any markings. Six hairy tubercles 
furround the anus, of which four are longer, and two fhorter. The fexual organ, which is 
fituated beneath, is black, with a triangular or heart-fhaped fpot of white on each. The arms 
are hairy, briftly, and aculeated. The holders black, fcattered with foft hairs, and nearly per- 
pendicular. The eggs moderately large, and yellowifh; fome follicles contained only thirty, 
others 1 50 eggs. I have not yet obferved them in larger maffes than thefe. In one of the 
maffes which I found, feveral of the young ones were excluded, and fome of them were 
about to come out from their habitation. Letters A. B. and C. fhew a young one, which has 
juft broke its tunic, which immediately contra6ls and withdraws itfelf towards the anus, and 
at length falls off. A. the thorax — B. the anus— C. the abdomen. The young, while in 
the egg, embraces its abdomen with its legs. The figure of the young may be feen in 
fome degree, through the egg, appearing like circles, as at D. 
The females continue with their young in the nefts, till they can fhift for themfelves. 
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