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The abdomen ovate, cohering with the thorax, at a third of its length; marked by a 
figure, fomewhat like a Narwahl’s horn, of a blackifh colour, feated on the white bafe, and 
variegated round about with yellowifh. Two black incifures appear from the region of the 
thorax, in a tranfverfe diredion on the middle. On each fide, it is as it were fmoked, and 
varied with yellowifli lines, in an oblique direftion : below, between the fexual organ and the 
anus, it is black, ornamented on each fide with yellow crefcents, with the horns pointing 
inwards. The fexual organ of this female, which happened at this time to be in feafon for 
the male, I found to be like what is figured by Frisch. Germ. Tom. 7. p. 7. tab. 4. fig. 3. 
This author, either becaufe he had never feen Spiders in copulation, or had not accurately ob- 
ferved them, miftakenly calls the female by the title of the male. 
The arms are whitifli, and armed with hairs, briftles, and prickles of different lengths. 
The holders are whitifli, flrewed with fine white down. 
SPECIES VII.— A. OCELLATUS. 
EYED-SPIDER. 
A FEMALE, taken the middle of June, foon afterwards produced a parcel of eggs, the fize 
of a common pea, rolled up in a bag, and depofited in a corner. A week after, another of 
the fame fize, which fhe depofited in another corner, and in a week after this another, which 
was alfo laid in a third corner : after this the abdomen grew thin. Plate 10, fig. 6 . 
The fide-eyes, of which the laft is the fmallefl;, are clofe in one cavity. 
The feet abounded with hairs, briftles, and prickles. 
The thorax was ovate, flat, fomewhat dufky, and covered fomewhat thickly towards the 
eyes with white hairs. 
The abdomen is almoft globofe, a little pointed towards the tip; the jundlure by which it 
is affixed to the breaft ends below, at about a third of its length ; it is downy like filk, and 
very red, it is ornamented with a blackifh cornucopia, which is marked on each fide by five 
rufous contiguous fpots, decorated by a white border, and larger towards the fore-parts. In 
the 
