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of fmall gems. Thefe eyes are eight in number, four are placed immediately in the front of the filver- 
coloured circular front piece, and on each fide are two more at equal diftances, but rather in oblique 
pofitions, 
The body is really beautiful, the chief colour is deep brown, ftrongly tinged with bright purple; a 
broad ftripe of orange colour paffles down the abdomen from the thorax to the apex: the whole is elegantly 
marked with a variety of cream-coloured lines and {pots interfecting each other. Very little hair is found 
on any part of this {pider except on the thorax, which being rubbed off, difcovers a hard teftaceous black 
fubftance beneath. 
Fabricius is the only author who has defcribed this infeé&t: it has never been figured in any work what- 
ever, as appears by the lateft works of Fabricius, and our own obfervation. It is not always the moft decifive 
method to determine the f{pecies from a concife defcription; but this is fometimes unavoidable, and in the 
prefent inftance the defcription given by Fabricius accords in every re{pet with our fpecimen. The only 
infect with which it could poffibly be confounded is Aranea Pilipes, which alfo has never been figured; it 
differs however from Aranea Maculata in the very hairy clothing of the legs, and it has alfo two filver 
{tripes down the back: a ftriking fpecific diftin€tion to feparate it from our infect. It is alfo a native of 
the Eaft Indies, but not of China, that we are informed. 

