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TAB. XX. 
PHALANGIUM Diadema. 
Class 5. Insects. Order 7. Aptera. 
Gen. Char. Palpi two, filiform. Jaws horny, second 
joint armed with an acute cheliferous tooth. An- 
tennce none. Eyes two on the crown and two 
at the sides. Feelers filiform. Legs eight. Ab- 
domen generally rounded. 
Spec. Char. Thorax with an elevated spinous tu- 
bercle on the back, and an eye on each side of it. 
Palpi large, first joint spinous. 
Syn. Phalangium Diadema. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. \ 3. 
v. 1 . 2944. Fabr. Sp. Ins. i. 548. n. 5. Mani. 
Inst. i. 347. n. 5. Stroem.. Act. Hafn. 9. 583. 
i. 6. Mull. Zool. Dan. Prodr. Add. 280. n. 192. 
Every thing created has some attraction for the inquiring 
mind ; even the spider tribe, often most abhorred, and con- 
sidered as noxious, has occasionally some beauties. 
The present animal, nearly allied to the spider, might be 
shunned as hideous, and may perhaps for that reason have 
been unexamined. Even the Diadem does not remove its 
grim appearance, although it adds greatly to its odditv. It 
has however been recognised abroad, but not in Great 
Britain, as far as we know, until my eldest son, James 
Sowerby, found it on oak-trees in Hainault forest in 1802 , 
and G. B. Sowerby in 1803 in South Wales, on dripping 
rocks at a water-fall called Usgoed-Eynon-Garn. 
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