The Hiftory of ANIMALS, _ *; 
Aranea atdomine flavo, annulo ovali dorfali r 
The yellow-bodied Aranea , with a red and 
mark on the back . 
This is a very Angular and very beautiful fpecies: it’s body is of an oval form, and 
about the fize of that of the common blue fly; but it is of a beautiful whitifh yellow, 
with an elegant circle, or rather oval mark of red, upon the back : the legs are long, 
flender, whitifh, and tranfparent, and the joints of the fir ft' pair are blacky and there 
runs along the center of the oval mark a brown line. 
We have it in our hedges, but not common: it fpins a large, but npt very clofe, 
web. Lifter calls it, Araneus albicans corona coecinea in alvo ovali. 
The other fpecies of fpiders are, i. The great brown Phalangium, with the thick 
forceps. 2. The largeft yellowifh Phalangium, with the very fharp forceps. 3. The 
great tawny Spider, with thick legs. 4. The long and flender-legged great Spider. 5. 
The vaft pale brown Spider. 6. The vaft variegated Spider. Thefe are all natives 
only of hotter countries. 7. The common dark houfe Spider. 8. The great field 
Spider, with the brown and white body. 9. The great red-bodied Spider, with the 
white crofs. 10. The yellow and white-bodied great Spider. 11. The grey wood 
Spider, with a triquetrous body. 12. The green and yellow Spider, with black fpots. 
13. The grey-bodied Spider, variegated with white. 14. The fmodth, black-bodied 
Spider, with the white crofs. 15. The yellow-bodied Spider, with white (pots. i6<? 
The middle-fized variegated field Spider. 17. The elegantly variegated wood Spider. 
18. The black-bodied Spider, with the tops of the legs variegated. 19. The grey 
Spider, with undulated lines at the infertions of the legs. 20. The brown and varie¬ 
gated Spider, with foliaceous lines. 2 r. The little grey Spider, with a black fpot on 
the hips. 22. The little bluifh Spider, with a denticulated fpot at the hips. 23 1 The 
long-legged, yellow, hairy Spider. 24.. The great grey Spider, with very prominent 
appendages at the anus. 25. The dufky Spider, variegated with a bright white. 26* 
The black Spider, with denticulated white fpots. 27. The great blackifh Spider, va¬ 
riegated with fpots of a deeper black. 28. The grey, fofter, woolly Spider. 29. The 
plain-yellow, or livid Spider. 30. The fquare, fpotted, yellow Spider* 31. The 
large, black, hunting Spider. 32. The brown Spider, with an obliquely ftreaked belly. 
33. The long-bodied, yellow Spider. 34. The long-bodied livid Spider, with undu¬ 
lated variegations. 35. The brown, flow Spider. 36. The gold yellow Spider, va¬ 
riegated with brown. 37. The grey Spider, with black and filvery white fpots. 38* 
The feddifti brown Spider, with white variegations. 39. The green-eyed yellow 
Spider, variegated with a deeper yellow. 40. The reddifh Spider. 
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SCORPIO. 
H E body of the Scorpio is of a figure approaching to oval; the tail is long and 
flender; the whole covered with a firm and fomewhat hard fkin 1 the eyes are 
eight in number; two of them are placed contiguous, and fix tideways. The legs‘are 
eight, and there are alfo a pair of claws at the head, and a pointed weapon at the extre¬ 
mity of the tail. A 
Scorpio efufco flavefcens } peBlnum denticulis cBo> 
The great yellowifh Scorpio 5 with eight denticulations « 
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This fpecies, when full grown, meafures fix or feven inches in length ; thofe of four 
or five inches are common : it’s body is covered with a firm fkin, of a brownifli 
colour, but with a great deal of a yellow, or flame colour, in it. The body is of an 
oval figure, and is terminated anteriorly by the head, which is continuous with it i 
the eyes are fmall i the legs are eight, and are not very ftrong ; each leg is eompofed 
of fix joints, and is terminated by a pair of fharp claws; the legs are paler than the 
body, and have a few hairs on them : the claws arife, one from each fide of the thorax 
near the head; they are large, black, and much refemble the claws of crabs; each is 
eompofed of four joints. The body is alfo eompofed of a number of joints, divided by 
denticulations, as is alfo the tail i this has it’s infertion at the extremity of the body, 
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