7 ^^ INSECTS. APTERA. ny. Aranea. 
Caudatum. Feelers branched : tail ending in a briftle. 
Inhabits India. Pall. fplc. Zool.'g. tab. i. fig. i, 2. 
Suh, Inf. tab. u. Seba. MuJ. \.tab. 10. fig, y.S. 
Lunatum. Feelers very long and fpinous at the tip : thorax 
fhaped. 
Inhabits ^Imcrica. Palh fipie.Zccl. q. tab. -^./ig, ^, 6 . ■. 
iVf/frj 4 _times as long as the body, finooth except at the ''' 
which is very fpinous. 
117 . ARANEA. Mouth with lliort 
jaws, the lip rounded at the tip: 
2, incurved, Jointed and very fharp 
the end, thofe of the male clavate : 
tennae 0: eyes 8, rarely 6: legsS;^^^' 
domen ovate villous and furnilhed ^ 
. the tip Avith textorial paiiillte. 
In every flags of their cxillence thefe difguding animals P''‘J 
with the moft favage ferocity upon all other infeiils thef 
overcome and even upon one another : from the papill® 
end of the abdomen they throw our at p'eafure anunihe''|^ 
fine threads, which they unite in various ways for the 
of entrangling their prey : they every year call off theh 
skin, which is performed by fufpending thcmfelves in fon''^ |,{ 
litary corner, and creeping out of it.The younger ones h*'* jjt 
power of flight, and in the Autumn afeend the air to ag'!“|, 
heigth ; to perform which, they probably afeend fom« 
eminence, and are wafted about by the winds, filling the 
mofphcre with theirfine threads. 
They are infefted by the Sphex and Ichneumon. 
A. £yts placed :::: 
*Exten/a. Abdomen long filvery-greenifli : legs longitudinally 
ded. 
Inhabits Europe, in woods. Donovan v, lab, \ 56. fig. !• 
Lister Aran. Pg.^. Ray. Inf, icp, ‘ ., 
Head thorax and reddifh ; green ifli down the 
firfl pait of k'^s very long, third very fhort. 
