ORDER PULMONARLE. 
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They inhabit the edges of the waters, run on their surface 
with astonishing swiftness, and even enter them a little with- 
out being wet. The females make, between the branches of 
plants, a thick irregular web in which they place their cocoon ; 
they guard it until the young are disclosed. 
Lycosa, Latr ., 
Which again have eyes disposed in a quadrilateral figure, 
but as long, or longer than broad, and the two posterior ones 
are not placed on an eminence. The first pair of feet is 
sensibly longer than the second, but shorter than the fourth, 
which, in this respect, exceeds all the others; the jaws are 
truncated obliquely at their internal extremity ; the tongue is 
square, but longer than broad. 
Almost all the lycosse remain upon the ground, where they 
run very fast ; they lodge in holes which they find formed, or 
which they have excavated, strengthening the walls with silk, 
and they enlarge them in proportion as they grow. Some 
establish themselves in the cavities or clefts of walls, forming 
those tubes of silk, which they cover at the exterior with parcels 
of earth or sand. It is in these retreats that they moult and 
pass the winter, after having closed, as it would appear, the 
aperture. It is there also that the females lay their eggs. 
When they proceed to the chase, they carry their cocoon, 
which is attached by threads to the anus. The little ones, on 
issuing from the egg, fasten themselves on the body of the 
mother, and remain attached there until they are strong 
enough to seek nutriment for themselves. 
The lycosm are very voracious, and defend courageously 
the possession of their domicile. 
One species of this genus, the Tarantula , thus named from 
the town of Tarentum in Italy, in the environs of which it is 
common, possesses a great celebrity. I n the opinion of the peo- 
ple, its poison produces very grievous accidents, often even 
