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SPECIES III. — A. Aureolus. 
GOLDEN-SPIDER. 
These were found, the middle of July, on the tops of trees, fitting upon their bags, and 
guarding them within a veftibule of fcattered threads. Plate ii, fig. 4. 
The eyes are placed in a triangular form; the lowed: are fmallifli, and the four upper 
rather larger. The legs are in the proportions of 2, i, 3, and 4. They are whitifh, with 
red joints, and have many unequal hairs, briftles, and prickles. The thorax ovate, (lightly 
convex, all over filky ; with a facula running through the middle, and a white inconfpicuous 
border near the legs, which is brighter near the abdomen. The abdomen ovate, filky, and 
has a wedge, or mark of brown, furrounded by a lucid border, fomewhat obfcure towards 
the anus : to this fucceed two flames or waves, which end in a crimfon border, with which 
the upper part of the abdomen is terminated. The abdomen on its under part is greyifh, 
with a cinereous longitudinal fegment. The arms whitifh, with fmoke-coloured joints, and 
furnifhed with black hairs, briftles, and prickles. The holders brownifli, perpendicular, with 
a fine white down. The eggs about forty or fifty in each mafs, moderately large, round, 
grey, efpecially towards the time of hatching. The young, which come forth about the be- 
ginning of the dog-days, are fomewhat dark at firft. 
SPECIES IV. — A. Formicinus. 
ANT-SPIDER. 
About the middle of June, one female was caught, near an ant-heap, at the foot of a hill. 
Plate 10, fig. 3. 
The eyes are black, and placed in form of a triangle: the four intermediate ones very 
fmall, the two outer ones rather larger, and the two remaining ones very large; as appears 
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