TARSAL-COMB IN SPIDERS. 



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Nesticiis exhibits it to a rather less extent, bringing it closer to 

 members of the genus Linyphia in the section Erigonini. And 

 although we attach no very great importance to this tarsal-comb, 



Fig. 3. — Represents a female Th. tepidariorum in the act of capturing 

 a wood-louse, and shows the manner in which the hind legs 

 are used in en swathing the victim. 



not greater, that is to say, than is usually accorded in this order to 



minor structural details, whose importance, too, varies considerably 



in different families, yet this peculiarity is very easily noticed, 



and together with the other characters, such as absence of stout 



spines upon the legs, inclination of the maxillae over the labium, 



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