NATURAL HISTORY. . 387 
‘is marked with many white fpots. It will grow in a fhort time, from 
the fize of a fmall pea, to above an inch in length. : 
The brown Spider is fomewhat tranfparent, when placed between the 
eye and the fun. It-is to be met with in woods and hedges, and. 
weaves a very thick web, that it may withftand the force of the rain 
and wind. {t has a forked mouth furnifhed with feelers, over which, 
on the head, there are two {mall whitith fpots, which perhaps may be 
the eyes, and the whole body is a little hairy. 
The wild marjoram Spider, has a body as round as a ball, with its 
-back marked with fifteen white {pots, and the vent is of a quadrangu- 
lar fhape. It weaves a very rude.fort of a web, among the leaves of 
‘wild marjoram. ea 
There are three wall Spiders, which inhabit old walls, and the ruins 
of houfes ; they weave but fmall webs, and wander out in the day time, 
in fearch of prey, which they fall upon with great force, and drag 
them into their holes: the largeft is of a dufky colour, with an oval 
head, and a round globous body, each fide being adorned with two 
little fhort white lines, but about the middle of the back it is more 
whitifh, and the legs are variegated with blackifh fpots: that of the 
middle fize, is of a greyith colour, and on the middle of the back there 
are three white {pots like pearls, and that next the neck is the largelt 
and longeft: the third is of a blacker colour, and the back is marked 
with a white right angled crofs, for which reafon, it is called by fome, 
the holy Spider. In this particular it refembles one above defcribed. 
It is of the leaping or jumping kind, and is very yoracious, for it will 
lay up nothing for the next day. 
The thort black Spider carries a {now white egg-bag under its belly, 
aad runs very fwiftly; when this bag is broken, a great number of 
fmall Spiders come out, which go abroad in the day time to teed, and 
in the evening get upon its back, where they reft all night: there are 
Jet black Spiders among rotten wood, and in the holes of trees, with 
very fhort feet. ; aS 
The white Spider, has a compreffed broadith body, of a white colour, 
and long flender legs: the forehead is marked with a fpot, and each 
fide with a reddifh line: there are blackifh red Spiders, with an ob- 
long body, and a fharp tail; and there are red Spiders of two kinds, 
One of which lies in holes of the earth, and has a red breaft, with red- 
dith yellow feet, and the tail and body of a dufky colour, with a yel- 
lowith caft. 
Linnaeus takes notice only of fix Spiders, namely the greateft Spider 5 
the houfe Spider ; the bag-bearing Spider; the water Spider; the bird 
Spider and the Tarantula. : ' 5 
CAPS XV, s 
OF SCORPIONS, CENTEPEES, GALLY-WORMS, AND HOG-LICE. 
—— is an infe&t with a hody in the thape of an egg, 
4S. which feems to be covered over with foot, and its tail confifts of 
A az — feveral 
