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SPECIES II. — A. Margaritatus. 
PEARL-COLOURED-SPIDER. 
Of all the Spiders I have feen, this is a fpecies the leaft unpleafmg to the eye. The general 
title of this divifion applies to this fpecies, as well as the former. It is not one of the largeft 
fize, but it is one of the handfomeft, and is eafily found, at about fix in the evening, in the 
month of June, about hedges. It is of a uniform colour. Plate 1 1, fig. i. 
The eyes are black, and of a triangular fhape. The legs are in the proportion of 2, 3, i, 
and 4 j they are white, with two black claws, and are covered with confufed fpecks, and with 
many hairs, briftles, and prickles. Some of the hairs are black, others white, and feveral have 
the inner fide white, and the outer black; thus caufing an agreeable diverfity. The thorax 
nearly round, though fiightly flat ; almoft entirely covered with hairs, which are more lucid 
in the middle part, and black towards the legs. The abdomen flat, nearly round, but with 
the neck, or part near the thorax, pyramidal : all over hairy. Its colour is a compofition of 
black and white, fo mixed as to produce a moft: elegant pearl-colour over the whole animal. 
At the extremity of the abdomen, and efpecially in the female, two lucid cavities appear, 
which are marked with two black fpecks, as in the figure. The arms of the male have ob- 
tufe and downy globules (fee A.) and the exterior fide of the fecond joint is very hairy, as 
well as the tubercle or globule. The arms of the female are cylindric, and abound with 
hair; with many prickles round the joints. The fame elegant pearl-colour appears on thefe 
as on the other parts of the animal. The holders have many afli-coloured hairs, and are fur- 
nifhed with black claws. I have fed feveral of thefe Spiders with flies, but they did not feem 
very fond of them : they liked the Aphides^ or Plant-lice, better, though thefe did not feem 
to be their proper food. On the 7th of July, I obferved the females laying their eggs, 
covering them with a thin web, and continually ftanding over them. They are feparate, 
round, and as reprefented at B. One female lays about 100. The young come out about 
the end of July. 
SPECIES III. 
