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The eggs are of a middling fize, feparate, round, whitifh, and about fifty in number, 
wrapped up in flue. 
The young, which come out in the middle of September, are white. 
SPECIES II. — A. Hamatus. 
hooked-spider, 
r HE middle of September one female was found in a thick cell, woven in the branch of a 
juniper. Plate 3, fig. 6. 
The eyes are fcarce vifible, and black. 
The legs very fhort, dulky, briftly, and prickly. 
The thorax ovate, flightly round, black j but very little downy. 
The abdomen nearly globofe, red and blue, ornamented by a glofly, filky, longitudinal 
white line, which grows thinner or narrower towards the anus. Four white branchings or 
proceffes, of which the anterior are more hooked than the others, and are turned towards 
the curvature of the abdomen, appear on each fide the line. To this fucceeds a little tranf- 
verfe line ; the fides of the abdomen, a greyifli and undulated variegation is feen. 
T HE arms are dulky, hairy, briftly, and prickly. 
The holders are black. 
SPECIES III. — A. Lunatus. 
moOned-spider. 
On the firft of July, one female of this fpecies was obtained. On the fourth of the fame 
month, Ike laid one ball of eggs, and between that and the i8th of September, nine others. 
After each of thefe operations flie grew very lean, and increafed again a little before the next. 
Plate 4, fig. I. 
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