Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . GRAPHIC MICROSCOPY. By E. T. D. No. II.—Eyes of Epeira ^^i^^gr^ HE Arachnida classis one so elevatedabove the Articu-lata, as to consti-tute the highestcondition of theInvertebrata. Ithas a wide range,extending from themicroscopic Tar-digrada (waterbears), the para-sitic Demodex, theAcari, and spiders;reaching the. or-ganised ^lygaleand scorpions. The Araneidw,or Spiders proper,form one Orderof this class, se-parated into two tribes: I. Octonoculina (eighteyes); 2. Senoculi
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . GRAPHIC MICROSCOPY. By E. T. D. No. II.—Eyes of Epeira ^^i^^gr^ HE Arachnida classis one so elevatedabove the Articu-lata, as to consti-tute the highestcondition of theInvertebrata. Ithas a wide range,extending from themicroscopic Tar-digrada (waterbears), the para-sitic Demodex, theAcari, and spiders;reaching the. or-ganised ^lygaleand scorpions. The Araneidw,or Spiders proper,form one Orderof this class, se-parated into two tribes: I. Octonoculina (eighteyes); 2. Senoculina (six eyes), divided into families,genera, and species. Epeira conica, the subject of the plate, is a species ofthe Family Epeiridae of the Tribe Octonoculina, andfairly represents the popular idea of the entire Order,as to them especially belong the wel)s, so well known,formed by precise geometrical rule radiating from acentre, and connected at regular intervals by as it would be, space does not admittouching on the general anatomy of the spider, but itmay be comprehensively stated, that the differencesof structure between spiders and insects, con
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