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SPECIES XI. — A. ScLOPETARIUS. 
GUN-SPIDER. 
This is met with about the middle of June. Plate 2 , fig. i. 
The fide-eyes are almofl joined. 
The legs, which are hairy, abound with large black prickles. The jun6lure is black: the 
thighs are greyifh, or even milk-white, and black towards the joints. The remaining part 
of the leg is girt with greyifh and dufky bands. 
The thorax, fomewhat dulky, rather flat, ornamented with a narrow white border towards 
the feet, abounds towards the eyes with white down. 
The abdomen is ovate, downy, and black, is greyifh, and undulated at each fide. The 
figure fliews its fingular marking better than any verbal defcription. 
The arms of the male, fig. 3, letter (a)^ have the lafl; joint brownifli and downy; in the 
hollow of which, (b)^ lies the fexual organ, which projects on being touched. — (c) reprefents 
the lafl: joint but one ; it is whitifli, and has two longer, with two fliorter briftles. The 
figure fliews thefe particulars clearer than a long defcription. 
The holders are black, very little downy, and perpendicular. 
The eggs are about thirty. 
The young are hatched about the beginning of the dog-days. 
SPECIES XII. — A. CucuRBiTiNUs, 
GOURD-SPIDER. 
This fpecies frequents leafy trees in July and Augaft. 
The figure, plate 2, fig. 6, is rather larger than life. 
The fide-eyes are contained in one cavity. 
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