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by the dots in the figure. The proportional length of the legs is 4, 2, 3, and i. They are 
glaucous, and are all furnifhed with hairs, briftles, and prickles. The thorax ovate, filky, 
afh, or pearl-coloured, with white hairs, and an inconfpicuous facula on each fide. The ab- 
domen ovate, filky, afh, or pearl- coloured, with a black wedge next the thorax, ftretched 
almoft beyond the middle, towards the anus, broader in the middle than at each end, and 
edged with a white border. The holders of a pearl-colour, with hairs, briftles, and prickles. 
This female laid about one hundred round yellow eggs, which were involved in a contiguous 
covering; but no young were hatched from them; either on account of the parent not having 
been impregnated, or elfe becaufe the larn^ce of ichneumons, which crept out from the abdo- 
men foon after fire had done laying, had rendered them abortive. 
SPECIES V. — A. Cristatus. 
CRESTED-SPIDER. 
About the middle of June, I caught two females of this fpecies, plate 10, fig. 2, neither 
of which laid eggs, though I kept them both to the end of September. In the middle of 
Auguft, one of them fpun a fmall web, like a fcale, as thick as paper, in a corner. It died 
on the 30th of Auguft. 
The eyes are black, and in a triangular form: two of them are large in comparifon of the 
reft : the two laft, which are fituated in the upper corners of the triangle, are very fmall : the 
four intermediate ones fcarce bigger ; as the dots in the figure fliew. The proportion of the 
legs is I, 2, 4, and 3. They are grey, and have hairs, briftles, and prickles. The thorax 
rhomboid, flat, brownifli, but with a red caft : with two greyifli lines fwelling out, and 
meeting near the anus ; it is alfo fcattered over with fhoit thick down, and with black prickles. 
The abdomen, which is joined to the thorax, at about a third of its length, is nearly round, 
except that a pyramidal point intervenes near the thorax. It is brownifli, and ftriated or 
wrinkled; it has fine down, and a lucid marking, like a little creft : towards the fides it is 
reddifli. The aperture is fituated more within the dufky inferior furface. The holders are 
whitifh, and have hairs and prickles. 
SPECIES VI. 
