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EPEIRIDiE. 
and umbrageous woods in Cambridgeshire and Yorkshire, and that it has the habit of 
attaching the dead bodies of the insects which it captures to two radii forming a right line 
above and below it when occupying the customary station at the centre of its snare. 
Epeira tubulosa. PL XXVII, fig. 262. 
Epeira tubulosa, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., t. ii, p. 86. 
— — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. x, 
p. 249. 
Singa hamata, Koch, Die Arachn., Band iii, p. 42, tab. 88, figs. 197, 198. 
— -— Koch, Uebers. des Arachn. Syst., erstes Heft., p. 6. 
— melanocephala, Koch, Die Arachn., Band iii, p. 44, tab. 88, fig. 199. 
Titulus 7, Lister, Hist. Animal. Angl. De Aran., p. 40, tab. 1, fig. 7. 
Length of the female, 3 th of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, T ‘ 5 th, breadth, ^th; 
breadth of the abdomen, ^th; length of an anterior leg, 1 th; length of a leg of the third 
pair, 5 |ths. 
The cephalo-thorax is convex, glossy, compressed before, rounded on the sides, and has 
an indentation in the medial line; the falces are conical, vertical, and armed with teeth on 
the inner surface; the maxillae are short, powerful, and enlarged and rounded at the extremity; 
the lip is semicircular, but somewhat pointed; and the sternum is heart-shaped, with small 
eminences on the sides, opposite to the legs. These parts are of a dark-brown colour, the 
falces, maxillae, and the extremity of the lip, which are the palest, having a tinge of red. The 
four intermediate eyes form a trapezoid whose posterior side is the shortest, and those of each 
lateral pair are placed obliquely on a small tubercle, but are not in contact; the anterior eyes 
of the trapezoid are the largest of the eight, and are seated on a protuberance. The legs are 
robust, provided with hairs and a few spines, and of a yellowish-brown hue, with obscure 
annuli of a deeper shade at the joints ; each tarsus is terminated by the customary number of 
claws of the usual structure. The palpi resemble the legs in colour. The abdomen is of an 
oblong oviform figure, thinly clothed with hairs, glossy, convex above, and projects over the 
base of the cephalo-thorax; the upper part is of a dark-brown colour, the extremities being 
the darkest; a yellowish-white line, intersected at right angles by several yellowish-white 
streaks, extends along the middle, and a longitudinal one of the same hue passes above 
each side; the sides are of a yellowish-white colour marked with oblique, brown streaks; 
and the under part, which has a brownish-black tint, is bounded laterally by a yellowish- 
white line. 
The sexes are similar in colour, but the male, which is the smaller, is somewhat darker 
and less distinctly marked than the female. The cubital and radial joints of its palpi are 
short; the digital joint is oval, and of a dark-brown hue; it is convex and hairy externally, 
concave within, comprising the palpal organs, which are highly developed, complicated in 
structure, and of a brown-black colour. 
