SPIDER. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennae none* 
Eyes eight. 
Mouth armed with two crotchets. 
End of the abdomen provided with instruments for spin- 
ning, shaped like nipples. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER; 
Aranea domestica. A. abdomine ovato fusco : maculis nigris 
quinque subcontiguis j anterioribus ma- 
joribus. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1 . 
p. 2952. 
Body brown, and of an oval shape, with 
five black spots near together, of which 
the two anterior are the largest. 
Aranea Derhamii. Scop. Ent. Cam. 
1104. 
House Spider. . . Degeer Ins. 7. p. 264. no. 19. pi. 15. f. 11. 
Clerck. Aran. JO. pi. 2. f. 9. List. 
Aran. 59. f. 17. 
There is something so disgusting in spiders to 
persons in general, that many who would otherwise 
be well inclined to observe their curious operations, 
cannot find resolution enough to overcome their 
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