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and with black fides, marked next the legs with a greyifli line. The abdomen longifli, 
ovate, hairy; for the moft part white above, marked with two white dots, near the thorax; 
beneath greyifh, with blackifh fides. I nouriflied this Spider for fome time, till at length 
it made its efcape, from a hole in the box in which it was kept, and which I had forgot to 
clofe after feeding it; hence it is not in my power to defcribe particularly the arms and 
holders. 
SPECIES XIII.— A. PiRATicus. 
PIRATICAL-SPIDER. 
On the loth of June, I took with much difficulty one of thefe, amongft rufhes in a water, 
where it wa^ feeking for prey, in company with many others. I afterwards looked for more 
of the fame fpecies in the fame place, very often, but in vain. Whether a windy feafon, or 
a rainy one was the caufe of their abfence, or whether the ufual period of their coming there 
had expired, I cannot tell. Plate 7, fig. 7. 
The eyes as ufual. The legs very hairy, briftly, and a little aculeated. The thorax almofl 
of a rhomboid form, broken off, or abrupt, as it were, at each end. It is marked in the 
middle by a brownifh facula of a flender form, and which runs firft into a fharpened blackifli 
mark, and then into a very deep black. It has alfo a white lucid margin next the legs ; and 
has alfo a quantity of long hair of a dark colour upon it. The abdomen ovate, blackifh, 
with longhair, a white border on each fide, and fix whitifli dots, in a double feries, on the 
upper part. The arms are furnifhed with longifli thick hair. The holders are hairy. 
SPECIES XIV. 
