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EPEIRIDiE. 
Epeira angulata. PI. XXVII, fig. 259- 
Epeira angulata, Koch, Uebers. des Arachn. Syst., erstes Heft, p. 2. 
— — Koch, Die Arachn., Band xi, p. 77, tab. 379, figs. 892—895. 
— — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. xx, 
p. 502. 
— cornuta, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. ii, p. 123. 
Length of the female, |,ths of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, 1th, breadth, ^ths; 
breadth of the abdomen, 1th; length of an anterior leg, |ths; length of a leg of the third 
pair, |;ths. 
The legs are robust, provided with hairs and spines, and of a yellowish-brown colour, 
with brown-black annuli; each tarsus is terminated by three claws of the usual structure, and 
below them there are several smaller ones. The palpi resemble the legs in colour, and have 
a curved, pectinated claw at their extremity. The cephalo-thorax is slightly convex, com¬ 
pressed before, rounded on the sides, and has an indentation in the medial line; it is densely 
clothed with yellowish-gray hairs, and of a dark-brown colour; an obscure band extends 
along the middle, another on each side, and the lateral margins are the darkest. The four 
intermediate eyes, which are seated on a protuberance, nearly form a square, and those of 
each lateral pair are placed obliquely on a tubercle and are near to each other, but not in 
contact. The falces are powerful, conical, vertical, and armed with teeth on the inner sur¬ 
face ; the maxillae are straight, short, strong, and greatly enlarged at the extremity, which is 
rounded ; the lip is nearly semicircular, but somewhat pointed at the apex. These parts are 
of a dark-brown colour, with the exception of the extremities of the maxillae and lip, which 
have a yellowish-brown hue. The sternum is heart-shaped, with prominences on the sides, 
opposite to the legs'; it has a dark-brown hue, with a broad, longitudinal, yellow-brown band 
in the middle. The abdomen is hairy, and somewhat oviform, a large, prominent, conical 
protuberance situated on each side of the anterior extremity of the upper part giving it a 
triangular appearance; it is convex above, and projects greatly over the base of the cephalo- 
thorax ; on the upper part there is a brown-black, leaf-like mark, which is darkest on the 
strongly dentated margins, and decreases in breadth as it approaches the spinners; it is 
finely bordered by a yellowish-white line, is obscurely freckled with pale-brown, and its 
anterior part comprises one or two yellowish-white, angular lines, whose vertices are directed 
forwards, and to these succeed short streaks and spots of the same hue; the anterior part of 
the conical protuberances and the sides have a yellowish-brown colour spotted with dark- 
brown ; on the upper part of the latter the spots, which are confluent, form oblique rows, 
and on their lower part horizontal ones; the underpart is of a brown-black colour, with two 
conspicuous, parallel, yellow spots near the spinners; the sexual organs are prominent, and 
have in connexion with them a long, curved, membraneous process, which is darkest 
coloured at its extremity. 
The male is smaller than the female, and the conical protuberance on each side of the 
