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SPECIES I. — Araneus-Angulatus. 
ANGULAR-SPIDER. 
middle of June I caught a male, which I fed to the 26th, in hopes of catching a 
But finding it weak, I had it drawn immediately as at plate i, fig. 5. On the 
27th, in the morning, it changed the Ikin, and I fed it afterwards till the 20th of Auguft; on 
the 2 1 ft it was found dead. All this time no female of the fame fpecies occurred, nor any 
other male. After having changed its Ikin once, both the marks and the nature of the Ikin 
remained the fame. 
The eyes are black and all of the fame fize, except the two laft of the lateral ones, which are 
rather lefs, and ftand prominent from the tubercles. Eight very long crooked hairs appear 
between the eyes, black near the thorax, and livid towards the tips. 
The legs are black, of which the four anterior ones are marked v/ith fewer, and the four 
pofterior ones with more numerous circles. All of them are downy and befet with frequent 
prickles, which near the breaft are partly black and partly dufky, but towards the extremities 
are whitifh, or even quite white. 
The breaft or thorax is heart-ftiaped j very flat, a little dulky, abounding with a foft and 
fomewhat greyifh down. The narrow border next the legs is more inclining to white. 
The abdomen is ovate and downy; marked in a wavy manner with fmoke- coloured and 
reddifh flames. The junfture by which it is connedfed to the thorax terminates beneath, 
at about a third part of the abdomen : At the upper fide occurs a ring of milk-white hairs. 
On the middle of the upper part is a white conical fpot, the apex of which points to the head, 
and the bafe to the tail : The tip is marked by three little black Ipecks, one near the tip, and 
the other two equi-diftant from the bafe. Below thefe, and within the white fpot, towards 
the bafe, a black mark is fituated of an almoft triangular fliape, with its bafe upwards, and 
its point downwards. To the above-deferibed figure, a white line is added beneath, like a 
handle or foot ; fo that this with the former gives the appearance of the beautiful pinus abies, 
or fir, fo frequently feen in gardens, except in refpedt to colour. The whole of this figu re in 
D length 
I N the 
female. 
