placed in an oval form, and may be met with in gardens, at the latte” 
énd of Fuly. a 
The hair-coloured Spider, has on the upper fide of the belly part, 4 
yellow mark, in the fhape of a crofs, and round’ it there is a broad | 
fireak, of an oval fhape: the legs are of a light hair-colour, fpotted 
with black, and there are briftles of the fame colour at the joints. It | 
has two feelers, fmall at the Toot, and pretty thick from above half 
way to the ends; the belly part is oval, arid the breaft part {quare, 
and it has fix eyes. 
The Carter, or long-legeed Spider, has legs of a prodigious length, 
136 NATURAL HISTORY. - ; 
and there is no diftin@ion of the back and belly part, for the whole 
body appears to be nearly round, and marked with ten {pots about the 
edges: the feelers are fmall at the root, and become gradually thick 
to the ends: there are two- particiilarities belonging to this Spider,” 
which may be difeovered by a thicrofcope ; one is the curious contrivance 
of the eyes, which are only two, and placed on the top of a {mall pillar 
or hillock, rifiig out of the middle on the ‘top of its back, or rather thé 
crown of its head; for they are placed on the very top of this pillar, back 
to back, with tranfparent pupils looking towards each fide, but fome- 
What more forewards than backwards: they have a very fmooth, and 
a very protuberant horny coat, and in the midit’ of it the very black 
pupil is feated, being’ furrounded with a fort of grey iris,-and the pillar, 
or head and neck, feems to be covéred with a crufty thell : thefe eyes do 
not appear to have knobs or pearls, like thofe of other infeds. 
The other peculiarity, is the prodigious léngth of its legs, in propor- 
tion to its body,-which are jointed exa@ly like thofe of acrab, and ter- 
minated by a fmall cafe or {hell, faftened to the body ina very wonder- 
ful manner, and: which include avery large ftrong mufcle, whereby 
this little animal’ is not’ only enabled to fufpend its body upon thefe 
eight legs, but to move very {wiftly over the tops of grafs and leaves : 
the mouth is like that ofa crab, the thell ‘is: fpeckled with a fort of 
feathers or hairs, and the fegs alfo are hairy ;-in fhort it hag fome re- 
femblance to a crab in moft particulars, except the length of its legs. 
The Spider called the Phalangiumy, ig of a venomous kind, and is very. 
large, but in thape-it is like an Ant: the head is red, and the ret of 
the body black, fpeckled with white: there is another Phalangium, in 
fhape fomewhat like a black grape, having a round; black, thining,” 
globous body, with very fhort feet or legs, which feem to be imper-" 
fect, and yetit can run very {wiftly with them. ; 
The commion-houfe Spider, has‘a round body, or rather oval, which 
is almoft tranfparent + the colour is pale, and when it ftands ere@ upon 
its feet, it is not’ unlike a-painted ftar: the tkin is foft, fmooth, and 
polifhed, infomuch that forde have imagined they have feen their own’ 
faces refle&ed from it: the legs-are long, round, and flender,; and of 
a very quick fenfe of feeling, being eight in number. It is not venom- 
ous, nor any way hurtful, for‘its bite will caufe a fort of tickling, ra- 
ther than pain: this is certain, that they may be fafely taken inwardly, © 
as country people often experience, when they {wallow them for the’ 
eure of agues. When it is well fed, it will caft its fkin, not once a” 
year, but almof every month, - 
The role Spider, fo called, from weaving its web in rofe buthes, has’ : 
am oval -body, and a {mall forked head, under the belly, and the backs 
: 1s” 
