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coloured, mottled Spider, with legs banded across with black and 
white, found hanging to the ceiling or roofing beams of outoffices, 
warehouses, and cellars in Jamestown, where it spins a very neat, fine, 
and pretty, geometric web, about 12 inches in diameter. The egg- 
bag is flat, septilateral, and of a light purple hue. 
Fain. Thomisidce. 
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Xysticus, C. Koch. 
X. grammicus, C. Koch. — A light-brown Spider, found on 
shrubs in flower-gardens at an altitude of 2000 feet above the sea, 
and also on the cabbage-trees on the ridge behind West Lodge. It 
is not unlike a crab in its appearance and movements. Its four front 
legs are long and of the same colour as the body, and the four hind 
legs are very short and of a different colour, being almost white. 
It is not common in the Island, and does not spin a geometric web, 
but constructs a house, or nest, by binding together with a very 
fine silky web two or three green leaves ; the edges of the leaves 
are firmly bound together, leaving an opening at each end, to serve 
as a back as well as a front entrance. Small moths appear to con- 
stitute the chief food of this insect. The male is much smaller and 
darker coloured than the female. It is also found in Eui ope. 
Philodromus, Walck. 
*P. signatus, Cambr. — This is a native Spider, and, like most of 
the others, is rare. I obtained females only of it, and caught a 
specimen running across the dining-room table at The Hermitage, on 
the high land. It is a small speckled white and brown spider, and 
is described and figured “Proceed. Zool. Soc., Nov. 1869. 
Heteropoda, Latr. 
*H. (Olios) tridentigera, Cambr.— A medium-sized, chocolate- 
coloured, hairy-legged house-spider, frequently seen crawling about 
floors and walls of rooms during the evenings in warm situations. 
It is a native, and is described and figured “ Proceed. Zool. Soc.,” 
Nov. 1869. 
