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acute apophysis from its extremity, on the outer side; the digital joint is of an oblong-oval 
figure, pointed at the end; it is convex and hairy externally, concave within, comprising the 
palpal organs, which are highly developed, with a large and very prominent process at 
the base, whose extremity is crescent-shaped, and a long, finely-pointed spine originating at 
the base, on the inner side, and directed in a curve to the outer side; they are of a brown- 
black colour, tinged with red. 
Professor Sundevall was the first who proposed to found upon this species the genus 
Textrix, which he defined in his ‘Conspectus Arachnidum,’ published in 1833; a like pro¬ 
position, made in the autumn of the same year, was announced in the ‘ London and Edinburgh 
Philosophical Magazine;’ and it ft a remarkable coincidence that the same generic name 
should be conferred on this spider in both instances. 
Textrix lycosina, which has a relation of analogy with the Lycosidce, by the disposition 
and relative size of its eyes, is widely distributed in Great Britain, most commonly occupving 
crevices in rocks, stone walls, and the bark of old trees. Its snare consists of a sheet of web, 
supported both above and below by fine lines intersecting one another at various angles, 
and attached to it and to adjacent objects by their extremities; a cylindrical tube, in 
connexion with the snare, usually extends to the spider’s retreat. The sexes pair in June, and 
in the following month the female deposits between fifty and sixty spherical eggs, of a 
pale-yellow colour, not adherent among themselves, in a lenticular cocoon of white silk, 
of a fine but compact texture, measuring one fourth of an inch in diameter; it is attached to 
stones by a small covering of white web, on the exterior surface of which particles of 
soil and other materials are frequently distributed. 
This spider, with a change of integument, is capable of reproducing the legs, palpi, and 
terminal joint of the superior spinners after they have been removed by amputation. 
A solitary instance of the capture of Textrix lycosina in Ireland is recorded by Mr. R. 
Templeton. 
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