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SPECIES III. — A. ScENicus. 
SCENIC-SPIDER. 
This fpecies is very frequent towards the end of fummer, in hedges. Plate 6, fig. i. 
Amongst ten fpecimens fcarcely one male was found. The male and female are alike in 
every thing except the arms, which diftinguifli the fexes. 
The eyes cherry- coloured, glofly. The legs fhort and flrong, with unequally long hairs, 
and black and white circles. Their relative proportions 4, i, 2, and 3. The thorax 
rhomboid, black, glofly, with long and thick hair, and a white margin next the legs, 
befides three fpots of a white colour and triangular fhape. 
In fome there is a fliar infliead of the fpots, or even two fmall lines crofswife, but moftly 
very obfcure. 
The abdomen ovate, black, with unequal hairs, with three broad, oblique, lucid, white 
lines on each fide, making angles or partitions where they meet in the middle j but towards 
the anus are two very fmall ones. The abdomen being perforated with a needle, I eafily 
difcerned the tubercles : they are five in number j the two lowermoft, in proportion to the 
Spider^ are very large. The two intermediate ones rather lefs j the fifth or uppermoft, very 
fiiort and thick. The arms nearly white, and hairy. The holders black. 
SPECIES IV. 
