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ST. HELENA. 
sparingly clothed with silky, yellow hairs, and thinly covered on the 
sides and upper side with whitish yellow, cretaceous spots or small 
patches, many of them being nearly conterminous, and leaving a 
clear short sword-shaped or slightly cruciform marking on the fore 
part of the upper side.” 
Fam. Agelenidce. 
Amaurobius, C. Koch. 
*A. crucifer, Cambr. — A native Spider, of small size, which, 
either from its scarcity or its peculiar habits, almost eluded my 
search, inasmuch as I succeeded in capturing only two. It is 
figured “Proceed. Zool. Soc.,” March, 1873, pi. xxiv. f. 6, and it is 
also described as having an abdomen “ oval, rounded, and rather 
bluff behind ; the ground-colour is a pale luteous yellow, and it is 
more or less irregularly marked all over with black streaks and 
markings ; among those on the upper side, near the middle, is a 
fairly-defined cruciform marking, followed towards the spinners, in a 
longitudinal series, by several rather short, blunt-angular, transverse, 
black stripes. In front of the ordinary spinners is a broad, transverse, 
supernumerary one.” 
Tegenaria, Latr. 
T. civilis, Bl. — One of the most abundant Spiders in the Island, 
found also in Great Britain as well as in many other parts of the 
world. It is the common, mottled-brown, garden-wall spider of 
the high land, and is found plentifully in corners of old out- 
buildings, earth banks, beneath stones, &c., where it conceals itself 
behind a small insignificant web or nest, constructed in the joints 
of rubble stone walls, stems of old decaying trees, &c., ready to 
dart upon its prey when it comes near, in the form of moths, flies, 
and other insects of that class. 
# T. proxima, Cambr. (T. atrica, “Proceed. Zool. Soc.,” 1869, 
p. 533). — A native Spider, nearly resembling the last, but much less 
common. It is the light pinkish-brown spider found inhabiting the 
edges of window sashes, and the eaves of outbuildings on the high 
land. It spins little web, and generally appears to be lying in wait 
for its prey. 
