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SPECIES V. — A. Monticola. 
MOUNTAINEER. 
.About the middle of June, I obferved the manner of conjunction in thefe Spiders^ on the 
top of a rocky place, expofed to the fun, where feveral of them were thus engaged. The male 
and female, after feveral preludes, by Ikipping towards each other, prefently perceive each 
others intentions, and leap with flower motion, till at length the male fuddenly fprings on the 
female, and placing himfelf in a fomewhat oblique direction, applies the tip of one of his 
arms to the projecting tube of the female, then the tip of the other arm, and thus alternately, 
till at length both male and female fpring nimbly away from each other. This Ipecies is one 
of the fmaller kind of Spiders. Plate 5, fig. 5. 
The eyes are as reprefented by the dots near the figure. The legs whitifh, with black fpots, 
unequally long hairs, and black prickles. The thorax oblong, flat, hairy, rather flender 
towards the fore-part, black, with a whitifh line drawn through the middle of the thorax, as 
it were into the abdomen, and edged with a white border on each fide near the legs. The 
abdomen is hairy, brownifh above, and afli-coloured below. That of the male is nearly 
round, or obtufely oval, and rather fmaller than the thorax j that of the female is oblong- 
oval, larger than the thorax, and flightly undulated. 
The extremities of the arms of the male are reprefented at B. While they are gently 
prefled under the microfcope, thofe two little prominences, figured on the inner-part, appear; 
of which the anterior is red on the outfide. The arms of the female are cylindric : thofe of 
both fexes are brownifh, and have long hairs, briflles, and prickles. The holders are brownifh, 
hairy, perpendicular, and terminate in black claws. 
SPECIES VI. 
