Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1895 — Four Spiders to the Found. [ARTICLE]

Four Spiders to the Found.

The lizard spider (meius my gale) is the largest siieeles of venomoos spider gnown. He is of a bright yallow color, with three red stripes on his back and a cresent of pure black on the abdomen. Full grown specimens of the lizard spider (so called because their chief food Is small lizards, frogs, eta) measure four inches across the bade and have legs ten Inches long. Poor foil grown males collected by the British exploring expedition weighed one pound four’ounces. This giant of the spider family Is a native of Ceylon.