12 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PART VL— PROVISION FOR NURTURE AND DEFENSE. 



CHAPTER XV. 

 PROCURING FOOD AND FEEDING. 



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Food taking Tools— Handling the Snare— Accuracy of Perception— Treatment of Insects- 

 Swathing the Prey— The Banquet Room— Deporting SAvathed Insects— Trussing Cap- 

 tives— Acrosoma Trapping Flies -Order and Subordination of Instincts— Flies Ban- 

 queting with a Spider— Location Controls Food— Prolonged Abstinence— Comparative 

 Feeding Habits— How the Tarantula Feeds— Need of Water— Drinking Habits- 

 Does the Spider Eat Its Web?— Wear and Tear of Snares— Mending the Web— En- 

 tangling Insects— The Spider as a Philanthropist — Man as an Ingrate 247-267 



CHAPTER XVI. 



EFFECTS AND USES OF POISON. 



The Fangs and Poison Bag — Blackwall's Experiments— Effect of Epeira's Bite— The 

 Inoculation Test— General Harmlessness of Spiders— The Other Side— The Venomous 

 Spider of Xew Zealand— Latrodectus mactans— The Popular "Black Spider "—In- 

 definite Testimony — Phidippus morsitans —Effect of Spider Venom on Insects — 

 Poison as a Reserve Weapon— Popular Notions- Medical Imaginings— Queer Reme- 

 dies—Useless Fears 268-283 



PART VII.— NESTING HABITS, PROTECTIVE ARCHITECTURE, 



AND DEVELOPMENT. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



NESTING HABITS AND PROTECTIVE ARCHITECTURE OF ORBWEAVERS. 



Varieties of Spinningwork — The Nests of Epeira insularis — Leaf I'ollcd Habitations — 

 Woven Tents — Shelter Tents — Spider Seamstresses— Variations in Individual Habit — 

 SjK'cial Adaptations— The Shamrock Spider's Nest— Epeira domiciliorum and tria- 

 ranea — The Angulata Croup — How the Spider ]Makes a Nest — Sewing Leaves To- 

 gether—Spider Upholstery —Nest of the Voung — The Nest of Epeira thaddeus— The 

 Domed Tent of Triaranea — Labyrinthea's Nest — The Leafy Canopy oC Labyrinthea — 

 Origin f)f the Nest making Habit — Intelligent Selection — Design Showed in Sewing — 

 Nesting Industry Protective- N'arious iMjrnis (jf Tents Summarized 28-i-;il2 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

 NEST MAKING : ITS ORIGIN AND USE : DEVELOPMENT IN VARIOUS TRIBES. 



Comparative Studies— Nests of Tubeweavers — Saltigrades— Linewt-avcrs — Theridiiun rii)ar- 

 ium, the Prince of Spider Architects— Mode of Building— Use of Artificial INLaterial - 

 Nesting Snares of Linypliia- A Tent Among the ^^lorning (dories -Territclarian 

 Tubes- Atypus and Cyrtauclienius— Nesting Habit of Citigrades— Of l^aterigrades — 

 One Common and Typical Form of Nest— The Modes of Making Nests— INIethod of 

 Atypufi-Of tlie Mygalidte- Of tlie Water Spider— Of Speckled Agalena— Unity of 

 Method in All Tril)cs — Nest Parasitism -S(|uatter Sovereignty — Com]>arison with 

 Otlier Orders— Tube making Larvic- Nests of tlie Caddis Fly Larva- Leaf thatclied 

 Nest of the Bag Worm— Nest »i' a Tlicridioid Spider— The Leaf roller Tortricid 

 Moth— Shamrock Spider's Nest in tiie Ferns— The Shell of I )ifHugia— Catholic Ke- 

 fiemhkni'c in External Arcljitecture- Creation's Harmoiiv 313-33.5 



