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SPECIES IX. — A. Falcatus. 
SICKLE-SPIDER. 
Common, the beginning of June, amongft low grafs. Plate 7, fig. 4. 
The eyes of a blackifli red. The fore legs the longeft, next the hind legs, then the third pair, 
and laftly the fecond. The thorax rhomboid, flat, hairy, with two brown dots towards the 
anterior part, and two white falciform bows near the anus. The abdomen ovate, brownifh, 
hairy, with a greyifli margin, and a fliarp pointed blackidi fliade near the thorax. The 
arms with many unequal hairs. 
SPECIES X. — A. Arcuatus. 
BOWED-SPIDER. 
Found, the middle of June, among low grafs. Plate 10, fig. i. 
The eyes brownifh, with a glofly rednefs. The legs in the fame proportion as the former. 
The firfl leg has this particularity, the lafi: joint is very fhort and flender, the fecond fcarce 
thicker; but the third longifli, thick and ftrong ; and the thigh flill flronger and thicker; the 
fecond leg is of a fimilar flru61:ure, but the third and fourth legs are of the ufual form. All the 
legs are covered with unequally long hairs, bridles, and prickles, but the firft pair more fo 
than the reft. The thorax ovate, flat, black; with hairs of diflimilar appearance, white and 
longifli round the eyes, like eye-laflies, and below the eyes, between the holders, is an arch or 
circle of the fame fort of hairs. The abdomen was without any markings; for which reafon 
I have given this Spider a name, taken from the marks on the thorax. The thorax ovate, 
black, with unequal long hairs. The arms the fame, but with a few white hairs on the 
joints. The holders black, very prominent, with white hairs. The eggs about twenty, fmall, 
cohering, involved with foft flue. 
SPECIES XI. 
