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INDEX 



Hub, 13, 14 

 Huntsman spider, 37 

 Hyptiotes paradoxus, 31 



Infant mortality, 120, 121 

 Instinct, 21, 22, 29, 46, 129 



Jumping spiders, 4, 76-87 



Linyphia, 3, 32 

 Love dances, 82-87 

 Lung-books, 10 

 Lycosa kochi, 109 

 Lycosa picta, 61 

 Lycosidae, 5, 33, 52, 58-76 



Mammillae, 10 

 Marine spiders, 49 

 Mental powers, 20 

 Met a segmentata, 23 

 Mimicry, 55-58 

 Misnmena, 54 

 Moulting, 104, 122 



Notched zone, 13, 14 



Philodromus, 54 

 Phrynarachne, 57 

 Pirata, 59, 66 

 Poison of spiders, 75 

 Poison gland, 88 

 Psalmopoeus cambridgii, frontis- 

 piece, 103 

 Purring spider, 109 



Eastellum, 98 

 Recognition of cocoons, 66 

 Ked spider, 8 



Scopula, 119 

 Sight, 23, 60, 81. 101 

 Silk glands, 111, 112 

 Smell, 25, 100 

 Solitary wasps, 124, 125 

 Spigots, 111, 113-116 

 Spinnerets, 8, 110-118 

 Spinning apparatus, 110 

 Spinning glands, 111 

 Spinning operations, 117 

 Spools, 111, 113, 114, 115 

 Starvation, 122 

 Stridulation, 25, 105 

 Stimulating Keys, 107, 108 



Tarantula, 68-74, 128 

 Tarsus, 119 

 Taste, 26 



Theraphosa leblondi, 94 

 Theraphosidae, 25, 87-104 

 Theridiidae, 33 

 Theridion, 3, 23, 32 

 Thomisidae, 33, 52 

 Touch, 27, 101, 102 

 Tracheae, 6 



Trap-door spiders, 89, 94, 98 

 Trap-snares, 31 



Use of spiders, 127 



Viscid spiral, 15, 18, 19, 20, 116 



Water-spiders, 48-52 

 Wolf-spiders, 58, 76 



Zebra spider, 77 



CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 



