On examining it I found that it was a great crab-spider, one of the formidable arachnida, which are said to eat young birds and other small vertebrates, though they generally, like other spiders, live upon insects.
"On the Banks of the Amazon"
W.H.G. Kingston
I brought some books connected with the research I intend to do on Earth for my degree, and I have spent many happy hours poring over the thrilling pages of Extraterrestrial Entomology and Galactic arachnida."
"The Passenger"
Kenneth Harmon
The same may be said of the arachnida and Crustacea.
"Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon"
J. Emerson Tennent