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the active party, introducing her ovipositor into the genital 

 atrium of the male ( 5 



Maeterlinck's popular description of the life of the bee, states 

 that the male honey bee captures the female in her nuptial 

 flight ami leaves part of his copulatory appendages in her seminal 

 receptacles (20). The factor of natural selection is active in the 

 mating of the bee, for the strong males are the ones to capture 

 the females. 



1 ielde iv. \Vlni-lrr .vp and others mention the mating of 

 ant 5i / 'imination i- 1 >y -mell. Forel calk it "contact- 

 odor." 



Mit< hdl JJ . worked with mosquitws, finding ih.it tlu j sexes 

 di-< riminati- I-.K li other by the -<>n-. The female tlic< into a 

 (1<. ml of dancing male-. It i- poible that di-criminat ion is 

 risnal at lir-l. rather than auditory a- Mi Mitrhe'l belic\e-. 



In conlmement, the female -tand- quietly >n the floor of her 

 e \\ilh tlie male U-neath and clin-im; with hi- body ]).iralk'l 

 to Inr-. Anv di-iiirb.im e which cau-e- the female to mo\c, 

 \\hen the p.iii aie ; Ull.it i llg, catl-e> the male to seize her 



1 he mating i- ivpeaird e\'er\' hour or ohriier, \\hen the 

 male i- (\riinl IP\ a nioM-nient of the temale. Tin- ma\ 1 u- 

 luoii^hi alion! K\ a tap on the cai;e. When nm online. 1, one 

 male unite- \\ith -c\eral t-inale-. A -in^le fert ili/at ion la-t- 

 foi five layings. Mi Mitchell conclude- that tin- male con- 

 tinue- to approach the female l.v mean- of the olfadory -timuli 

 through the -en-ili\e hair- on the antenna-. 1 >i-tant locali/ation 



B according to her idea, by sound ; ili-crimination of the quiescent 



lemalein-ar.it hand i-l>y-mell. Moulting a- o, ( nrrin- l.efoi.- 

 fertili/atioii i- not meiitioiu d. 



Mockard, \\orkini; \\ith thr \\ alkin.^--lick. Af>lof>us Mnycri 

 mini that male- mated with arliticial female- made by 

 fa-teniim ihe alidomeii- of tVmale- to -tick- and supporting the 

 -tick- on u iie 1< j 



.\nnliniilii. Montgomery, 1903 23), and Porter, 1906 (30), 

 ha\e -ummari/ed prett\ fully the in\ estimation made on the 

 matins' habit- of -|.ider-. Both these writer- ha\e contril mled 

 much original in\ e-t Ration. I -hall not attempt to give all of 

 the literature, i vial i\ e to t he mating habits of spiders, but content 

 m\-el! \\ith a brie! -uinmary of the more important work. 



