Its rusty colour, its ill-shaped body, and hairy legs, combined with the piercing look from its eyes, gave it a most vicious appearance, such as belongs, less or more, to all of its race-for it was of the race aranea, or spiders.
"The Boy Hunters"
Captain Mayne Reid
There are great varieties of spiders in Ceylon, one of which is of such enormous size as to resemble the aranea avicularia of America.
"Eight Years' Wandering in Ceylon"
Samuel White Baker