Note (77) — BOOK V. (continued 2)
James Greive translation
77. The Phalangium is unknown to Italy, and is of several kinds; one like an ant, but much larger, with a red head, the rest of its body black and variegated with white spots. The bite of this is worse than that of a wasp. The Greeks gave this name also to two species of spiders, the lupus, and another downy with a large head. Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. xxix. cap. 4.