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above with a silvery silken down ; its abdomen is flatted, with- 
out spots, and festooned upon the edges. It is found in the 
south of Europe and in Senegal. 
Epe'ira fasca , Walck., Hist, des Aran. ii. 1. fem., is very 
common in the cellars of the town of Angers. Its cocoon is 
white, almost globular, fixed by a pedicle, and composed of 
very fine threads, and as soft to the touch as wool. 
That of the Epe'ira fasciata , Walck., Hist, des Aran. iii. 1, 
fem., is about an inch in length, resembles a small balloon, of 
a grey colour, with some black longitudinal radii, and one of 
the extremities is truncated, and closed by a flat and silky 
opercle. The interior presents a very fine down, which 
envelopes the eggs. This species establishes itself on the 
banks of rivulets, and there spins a vertical web, not very 
regular, at the centre of which it remains. It is very common 
in the South of France. Its corslet is covered with a silken 
and silvery down. Its abdomen is of a fine yellow, interrupted 
at intervals by transverse lines, black, or of a blackish brow n, 
arched, and a little waved. 
M. Leon Dufour has given us, in the Annal. des Sc. 
Phys. (tom, VI. pi. xcv. 5), a detailed description of this 
species, of its habits, and was the first to make us acquainted 
with the male. He has figured the sexual organ : it is in the 
form of a twisted hair. Epe'ira cucurbitina,{Aran . cucurbi - 
tina , Lin. ; A . senoculaia , Fab.), Walck., Hist, des Aran. III. 
iii., small ; abdomen ovoid, of a citron yellow, with black 
points, a red spot at the anus. It spins between the stems 
and the leaves of plants a horizontal w r eb of no great extent. 
Epe'ira conica {Aran, coniea , De G., Pall.), Walck. Hist. 
Nat. des Aran. II. iii., remarkable for its abdomen, humped 
in lront, and terminated in the form of a cone, with the anus 
placed at the centre of an elevation. 
It suspends to a thread the insect which it has sucked. 
We may place after this species that which M. Dufour 
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