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pay no regard to, but they attend diligently to what is caught in the night and the twilight. 
Plate 5, fig. 3. 
The fide eyes are two in each cavity. 
The legs abound with longifli hairs, bridles, and prickles. 
The thighs are blackifhj the remaining part variegated with blackifli and greyifii. 
The thorax is almoft fquare, flattifii, a little more pointed towards the fore-part j it is 
brownifh, a little fhining, hairy, and begirt with a narrow greyifii line near the legs. 
The abdomen is ovate, flattifii, coated with foft down, and has in the middle a broad 
Ipace, fiirrounded by a multangular line: towards the fides it is white; and above in the 
middle black. The fpace itfelf is marked by yellowifh points or fpecks, and near the thorax 
four incifiires appear, of which the two upper ones are a little fmaller than the others. The 
lower or under part of the abdomen is brown, except the fexual organ, which is fiirrounded 
by two white crefcents. 
The arms are variegated like the legs, and are alfo hairy, briftly, and prickly. 
The holders are black, perpendicular, and thinly haired. 
The eggs are yellowifh, glued together in a double bag, forming a mafs about the fize 
of a garden-pea at its full growth. 
The young, which I difcovered on the 226 . of July, were at firfl: black; they quickly 
changed their fkin, and by the end of Augufl: acquired half their fize. Lifter, de Aran. fig. 9. 
SPECIES VI.-— A. Pyeamidatus. 
PYRAMIDAL-SPIDER. 
Three females of this fpecies, plate 10, fig. 7, were found the beginning of Auguft, and 
fed to the middle of September: but all this time I could not find a male of this fame fpecies. 
One of the females changed its fkin a fliort time after it was taken. 
The eyes proje6led from a yellowifh tubercle : the two upper ones lefs diftant than the 
others : the two lateral ones not joined, but fingle, each on its tubercle, placed obliquely. 
The legs whitifh, with brown circles, white hairs, and black prickles. 
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