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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



[Feb., '14 



Standards of the number of eggs laid by Spiders 



(Aran.) III.* 



Being Averages Obtained by Actual Count of the Combined Eggs 

 of Twenty (20) Depositions or Masses. 



By A. A. GIRAULT, Nelson (Cairns), North Queensland, 



Australia. 



3. ULOBOROUS GENICULATUS Oliv. 



The above eggs were obtained from a number of nests in a 

 private residence used as a field laboratory on the edge of the 

 little hamlet of Nelson (Cairns District), North Queensland, 

 Australia, the first week in May, 1912. The species was kindly 

 identified for me by Mr. W. J. Rainbow, of the Australian 

 Museum, Sydney. Three egg bags to the nest seem to be the 

 average per female, but the following observations show that 

 as many as six may be deposited. A female kept under obser- 

 vation from April 30, 1912 (snbpended in an isolated web 

 across part of the frame of a rude ladder on the back veranda) 

 made a fresh cast a day or two previously and another on 

 May 10, so that she became mature not until the night of 



* For the first two of this series, see ENT. NEWS, XXII, pp. 461 ; XXIV, p. 213. 



