Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . ve region of cayenne pepper, pimento, andvanilla : but the greater number are from the , or SPKirilKltN, a village on thefrontiers of Prussia and Lorraine, 2 miles S. ofSaarbriick. Here on 0th .\ugust 1870 foughta blooily battle between the French and (Jcrnians,iu which the former were defeated. See France, SPIDER-CRAB SPIDKUS 631 Vol. IV. p. 7S2 : and the work on tlie buttle byMajor Henderson (1892). Spidor-orab. See Crab. SpidtT-lly {Oniithoi»i/ia), a genus of dipter-ous injects closely allied to the Forestl
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . ve region of cayenne pepper, pimento, andvanilla : but the greater number are from the , or SPKirilKltN, a village on thefrontiers of Prussia and Lorraine, 2 miles S. ofSaarbriick. Here on 0th .\ugust 1870 foughta blooily battle between the French and (Jcrnians,iu which the former were defeated. See France, SPIDER-CRAB SPIDKUS 631 Vol. IV. p. 7S2 : and the work on tlie buttle byMajor Henderson (1892). Spidor-orab. See Crab. SpidtT-lly {Oniithoi»i/ia), a genus of dipter-ous injects closely allied to the Forestlly, butparasitic on birds, not on quadrupeds. Thus, frequently infests the common fowl, theblackcock, and other birds in Britain. It is green-ish yellow, with smoke-coloured wings. Spider-llioilkcy, a name given U) an Ameri-can genus of monkeys, Ateles. These monkeyshave no thumb, or it is rudimentary. They occuronly in South .\merica, IMexico, and CentralAmerica. The popular name has been given tothem on account of their long, slender limbs. Like. SpiJer-monkey (./l(c/e« Sd) • . other New-World monkeys (Platyrrliini), theyhave a prehensile tail, and are naturally purelyarboreal in habit, .\ltliougli denizens of the trop-ical forests of the New World, they can, like thetropical apes of the Old World, endnre a very con-siderable amount of cold. One species,^, vcllerosiis,lives in large companies in forests at a height of7000 feet in Mexico. The Coaita is ^ fourteen species of the genus are known. Spiders (Araneidte) form an order within theheterogeneous class Arachnida. The name, whichseems to be a corruption of spinther, refers to thewell-known spinning powers which these animalsso cleverly exercise. They are foun<l almost every-where upon the earth, especially in warm coun-tries, and are of much import^mce in checking themultiplication of insects. A few tropical forms,notably the bird-catching spiders, exceed two inchesin length of body, bu
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