silvery silk, satin-lMfe 'ittk]pp^ak>rl&> ! >kf 'tti^'fe^r'^d 14 a 



water or any n)oyt^6^fta^ i 'kt{y'ifeb^Mfld6!' 11 Ilt'ItHe Wst ! TMi#n* 



structed entirely of' silted '-fflSUffflfflKI gh^e^esefli'Sp^^ttle': db'o^i 



tightly within the 'tfibe 1 ,) at' fe' fetftw*^ .gfc w f s^p^*''t(>1a''fc)ottie. [)1 'ThId ;! is i a4Miof l 



lined compactly wfrfti !Bfe^BUUeri'^tM 1 tn^tegl^-4%io^^bitt* [ i i I S^ 1 M^efel ) aWI'tfo ' 



while the creature may pass out by pressing against it, it closes of its own 



Nests are observe*. tb &8'p%e^' >oiir'8K>plWg f grSH~n^^ to 



close readily. fJ 7 f > <rtni ils't ,'iemoxy niiomtifiroo hn p.nol ni bagLofmi 3ir_>irj;q; orfT .JliiB'ri 



Of all the mAj<l^flfe4f idttytf dlp^ff^%{^^ 

 tation exercised by f!h#flOwer ft^ai'ttiife^egnis^ap^fffly^ri^ye/'I ' 



Some specimens of Trap-door Spiders^ttfl' ftfielr t ar^ itt' 

 tone, France. 



of a nest ; 



in the earth. 



second, or 



entrance of this. The external hinged door is 



depressed 



o<d; -jinin ?,vir//lj; HJ[K ibhlv/ f llj;d -us 



THE 



instead of eatehjfigiliti'faf 'tieis; 

 leaves, anc 



under stones, r moS8eSy -rocfcsf, i 

 an 



fierce and determined hvfatef, 

 are semi- 

 aot only able 

 surface of 

 aquatic 

 mersed, 

 which is 

 ing of their bodies. 



The 



sents the 

 called from 

 where this Aitfcftiiiaii^e^tyl^tffnl.'o wiuium ' 



There was 



the inhabitants ^Mtrt&t/KWrjttitfr itHhtASa-Hu'.d t'Jiilv, 

 borhood, that i 

 Tarantula he would 1 

 with a singular 



which exhibited f it8e5ft rttl't>nb'iff"'t^^x-^ff[w lo 

 tremes, the one 



melancholy, and itlw!<bth^*<Wl#irftml ^ft--'i(inwyi ^*/O 



vulsive movemerii^of fthfe'W^bifleiflibdyli" Itx'^Qfe feteb thought Jirat tm? dis^ 

 cured by music, and that a certain tune wftl*efc3fttl ia. :1 eac,h..par,ticwla,r ca$e> 



The disease uMtfWbtediy #*ised,''aa(}'ialglit, not inlpr6bably; r b\> 1 ctiTe"d' ) b!f 1 wf^c ) ;' 1 bl!it its 

 source was entirelyttngoliBect^d^wfth th^'Taaflfeal&. It ran through towns and villages like 

 wildfire, drawing >inCO>^is Wrte^ i fh\in8rei4s |: iAf { 'pel^^ 'tthe 



sphere of its infliien^-- 1 ^S^M^S^P^OftSf&BsiA^Mffi, arid '\\txvV 



it is by no means unlikely, that the frenzied gesticulations* c 



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