INDEX 



Aerial flights, 32 



Agelena, 38-46 



Agelenidae, 11, 38 



Araneae theraphosae, 87 



Araneae verae, 87, 89 



Argyroneta, 3, 49, 50, 51, 52 



Arthropoda, 6 



Attidae, 33, 4, 52, 76-87 



Atypidae, 93 



At y pus ajfinis, 89, 121 



Balloons, 34 

 Banana spider, 103 

 Barking spider, 107 

 Bird-eating spiders, 25, 89, 99 

 Body parasites, 123 

 Burrows, 63 



Galamistrum, 118 



Cannibalism, 33, 120 

 Carrying the young, 73 

 Characteristics of spiders, 4 

 Chelicerae, 10, 87 

 Cocoon, 12, 44, 64 

 Cocoon of Agelena, 44 

 Crab-spiders, 52 

 Cribellum, 118 

 Crustacea, 6 

 Cyclosa conica, 28 



Darwin's Pike, 22 



Desis, 49 

 Drassidae, 11 

 Drumming spider, 109 

 Dugesiella hentzi, 99 



Educability, 22, 27, 28 

 Egg parasites, 121 

 Enemies of spiders, 120 

 Energy stored in the egg, 130 

 Epeira, 3, 19, 112-116, 119 

 E. diademata, 13 

 Eyes of jumping spiders, 78 



Feet of spiders, 119 

 Foundation lines, 13, 14, 16, 17 



Garden-spider, 2, 13, 15, 19, 20, 

 23, 27, 39, 78, 121, 123, 126, 

 128 



Gossamer, 36 



Habits of Agelena, 38 



At y pus, 90 



Jumping spiders, 79 



Tarantula, 69 



Theraphosid spiders, 99 



Trap-door spiders, 95 

 Harvest spiders, 8 

 Hearing, 23, 101 

 Heteropoda venatorius, 37 

 Hibernation, 2, 131 



