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Towards the end of Augnft, feveral females of this fpecies, plate 2, fig. 7, were found, in 
cells adjoining to webs j fome of which were lefs fplendidly coloured and figured. 
The eyes black, and projeefting from the tubercles. 
The legs whitifli, with blackifli fpots, and fcattered over with briftles and prickles. 
The thoraii heart-fliaped, fomewhat dufky, and downy. 
The abdomen ovate, cohering with the thorax by a junclurc, fixed at about a third of its 
length. The colour is red, and the furface downy, like filk. Two longiOi bright marks 
fhine on each fide, the lower margins of each are blackened by excavations, with impreffed 
points, of which the two fuperior are rather fmaller than the inferior. To thefe points, on 
each fide, fucceeds a longitudinal wave, or line, which is at firft black, then whitifli, then 
broader and yellow, and laftly narrow and black. Between thefe lines, towards the anus, 
fome brown tranfverfe lines appear. Towards the fides, below the abdomen are fome 
variegated oblique lines of yellow and blackifli. 
The arms are of the fame colour with the legs, and are hairy, briftly, and prickly. 
The holders are whitifh, perpendicular, and thinly fcattered over with fine white down. 
Though thefe two appear at firfl: fight to be very different, yet I have good reafon to think 
that the one is no more than a remarkable variety of the other. If, however, this fhould 
prove a diftinfl fpecies, it may have the name of Babel, 
SPECIES V. — A. Umbraticus. 
RETIRED-SPIDER. 
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On the 13th of June, I found a fmgle female in the dark chink of a poft, fupporting a fence. 
At firfl it feemed dying, but was immediately after found to be very lively. I afterwards 
found that it avoided the light, and that it made its web either in the night, or at the firfl 
dawn of day. It was very fond of moths, and feemed almofl to negle6l flies. I therefore 
took much pains to obtain moths for it. In lefs than a month, I found two others. On the 
24th of July, I faw their manner of weaving, and what fort of prey they lie in wait for, in 
the thick cells which are faflened to their nets. Whatever is caught in the day-time, they 
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