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SPECIES I. — A. Vatius. 
BOW-LEGGED-SPIDER. 
JThOUGH this Spider bears no veiy great fimllarity to the fhape of a crab, yet it feems to 
have a better claim to that title than any of the reft ; wherefore it may ftand as the firft or 
chief fpecies in this divifion. Plate ii, fig. 5. I have found it on leafy trees, and about 
ruins, during the whole month of June j fometimes of a greenifii yellow, and frequently white 
or yellow. See Fauna Suecica. 1218. 
The eyes taken all together, make out the figure of a fmall ftielving, citron-coloured 
triangle, as the dots in the figure fliew. The legs are thus proportioned, viz. the firft pair 
longeft, then the fecond, then the fourth, and laftly the third. The two firft are nearly 
twice the length of the two laft. All of them are yellowifti towards their extremities, with 
black claws. Near the thorax they have fmall black fcattered hairs ; but towards the ex- 
tremities have larger hairs, together with prickles ; efpecially on the interior fide of the two 
anterior legs, and on the laft joint but one. The thorax ovate, flat, with fcarce any veftige 
of down. The abdomen nearly globular, with many rugae, plicae, and ftriae, running in an ob- 
lique direiftion over it. On the upper part in the middle, near the thorax, appears a deep 
cavity, marked with a black dot. To this fucceed two other very flender ones, and more 
apart ; and beneath thefe are two others ftill more feparated. The lower furface is very hairy, 
but on the upper part very flightly fo. The arms are brownifli on the laft joints, but blackifli 
at the tips, and have fmall thinly fcattered prickles. The holders are milk-white. 
SPECIES II. 
