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PE! Ae ee RES 
ARANEA DIADEMA. 
Waiter Cross, SPIDER. 
APTERA. 
No wings. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Legs eight. Eyes eight. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Abdomen gibbous, red-brown, with white {pots in the form of | 
a crofs. Lanny 
Syft. Ent. 434+ 13.—Linn. Syft, Nat. 2. 1030. Te | 
— Fn, Sv. 1993- 
Arana cruciger.—Degeer. Inf. 7. 218. 1. Tao Te Piss 3 
ARANEA Linnxi.—Scop. carn. 1077. 
Mouff. Inf. 233. Fig. 1. 
Aldrov. Inf. 608. Fig. 9- 
Tonft. Inf. Tab. 18. Fig. 17. 19. 20. 
Raj. Inf. 18. 2. 
Lift. Aran. Fig. 2. 
Frifch. Inf. 7. Tab. 4. 
Clerk. Aran. Tab. 21. Fig. 2. 
Schaeff. Elem. Tab. 21. Fig. 2. 
cnn! SOM, LODE AG, Fg. Oe 
The Genus Arana inode a vaft, if not endlefs variety of {pecies, 
and though the greateft diffimilarity may be obferved as to fize, pro- 
portion, or colouring, of many individual kinds, yet the rapacioufnefs 
Vou. I. ot. ae semmon 
