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The fide-eyes are black, and clofely joined. 
The legs {lender, longifh, brownifli, and roughened with unequal hairs, and a few 
briftles. Although only four are delineated in the figure, yet eight are vifible in the Spider. 
The thorax is very fmall, ovate, flat, nearly black, and fprinkled with fine down. 
The abdomen pear-fliaped, with the large end upwards, and the fmall one downwards. 
It is of a bay colour, bright, befet with fine white down, and is marked above with two 
white crefcents, oppofite each other. In the corner of the pofterior fide there are two 
fmall white fpecks, and above, or in the anterior, two more, which are larger, as in the 
figure. Towards the thorax the abdomen is of a bluifh white, and about the middle is 
fituated the thoracic jundlure. 
The arms are fomewhat dufky, and hairy. 
The holders are blackifli, and a little downy. 
The eggs are involved in a thick web of about the fize of a pea, not unlike a dry and 
wrinkled bladder. 
An hundred feparate eggs, of a white colour, and round, are contained in each follicle, 
which is fufpended in a little web near the female. 
The young, which come forth in three weeks, keep clofe to the female, and feed upon 
the prey which fhe takes j but when grown large enough to fhift for themfelves, they all dif- 
perfe different ways. 
SPECIES IV. — A. Sisyphius. 
sisyphus-spider. 
This fpecies is common in July and Auguft. Plate 4, fig. 4. They make their nefls of 
the fmall pieces which fall from the buds of trees ; and they thrufl: thefe into their web, fo as 
to make it firm and clofe. The infide is lined with a foft fmooth down j and is in the form 
of a bell. Thofe nefts which are made of the pine and juniper, are more pointed and 
handfomer. 
