424 
CLASS ARACHXIDES. 
blage of these eyes represents a crescent, the convexity of 
which is anterior and external. 
T. globosus (Arcmea globosa , Fab.) A . irregularis , Panz., 
Faun., Ins., Germ., Fasc., 74. tab. xx. fern. ; Walck., Faun., 
Frang. aranei'd. vi. 4; nearly three lines in length, black, with 
the abdomen globular, red or yellowish all around the back. 
Thomisus cri status, Clerck, Aran., Snecic. pi. 0, tab. vi. ; 
size of the preceding ; body of a reddish grey, sometimes 
brown, sprinkled with hairs, with small spines to the feet ; 
the lateral eyes larger, and placed upon a tubercle ; a trans- 
verse yellowish stripe on the front of the corslet, and others 
forming a Y of the same colour on the back ; the abdomen 
rounded, with a yellowish band, having on each side three 
divisions, in the form of teeth, on the middle of its back. 
This species is common, and is usually found upon the 
ground. 
T. citreus , Aranea citrea , Deg., Schosff., Icon., Insec., tab. 
xix. 13. ; of a citron yellowish, with the abdomen large, 
broader behind, and having often on the back two red stripes 
or spots. Found on flowers. 
A sub genus established by M. Walckenaer, under the name 
of Store N A, but which is yet but imperfectly known, seems 
proper to terminate this section, and conduct to the oxyopes, 
which partake as much of the crab-spiders as of the wolf- 
spiders. The storenm have the jaws inclined upon the tongue, 
which is almost as long as they are, and in the form of an 
elongated triangle. The forceps are conical ; the two anterior 
feet, and then the second, are the longest of all ; the two fol- 
lowing exceed the last ; the eyes are disposed on three trans- 
verse lines, 2. 4. 2. ; the posterior two form, with the inter- 
mediate two of the second line, a small square, and the an- 
terior two are apart. 
Other spiders, whose eyes, always eight in number, are 
