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In the beginning of June, I found one female at the top of a tree, leaping with great 
quicknefs. Plate lo, fig. 5. I kept it till the i8th of July, but was not fo fortunate in all 
that time, as to find any males. During the time of my keeping this Spider y I had oppor- 
tunities of obferving its manner of eating. When fhe was taken, a fly was perforated by the 
claws of her holders or clafpers (fee letter A. fig. 4.) whilfl: fhe chewed it by means of the 
jaws placed between them. It appeared plainly how flie held and turned the fly, by means of 
her arms (B), while fhe drew out the claw of one of the holders to fix it in another place. 
The jaws, fituated below and between the holders (C) were furnifhed with little hooks or 
teeth, in a femicircular form, to tear and chew the food. She feemed to have the power of 
changing the fituation of thefe teeth, from which circumftance they might not improperly 
be called by the name of claws. The black orifice (D), below and between the jaws, is the 
gullet ; out of this, which received the juices of the fly, a fluid bubbled upj when the fly was 
about two thirds eaten, all the above motions were with ftill greater eafe and pleafure ob- 
fervedj and when the vidtim was nearly confumed, they were extremely plain. The Spider 
then cafl: away the juicelefs remains of the fly, as one would the bones of a bird. 
After this the animal licked the tips of the arms, firfl: one, then the other, catching 
them by the claws of the holders, and drawing them into the mouth, where by diligently 
wiping them both with the jaws and the claws of the holders, fhe at length perfectly cleaned 
them ; the procefs being facilitated by the afflux of a fluid, which from time to time arofe 
from the mouth. 
On the 19th of July, I found two other females, each of which had weaved together three 
leaves in a triangular form, in which to place her nefl, which was compofed of a thick web ; 
while the eggs were involved in a ftill thicker one. 
The eyes are fituated as the dots in the figure. The proportions of the legs, 2, i, 4, 
and 3. They are green, and abound with hairs of a black colour, and alfo with briflles and 
prickles. The thorax is ovate, flat, green, with a fine down, and a flender greyifh border 
on each fide near the legs. The abdomen ovate, green j with thickly fcattered white dots 
above, and alfo a wedge-like mark without dots : beneath it is black and fquarifh, with a 
fpot on the part where the fexual organ is feated, and between that and the anus, with four 
dufky longitudinal lines. The arms greenifh, with black hairs, briflles, and prickles. The 
holders, 
