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interest in them after he discovered the silk-Hned 

 burrow of the trap-door spider, and he must have 

 collected at least a hundred different kinds. 



One was entirely green, and one looked like the 

 argiope so common in flower beds about New York; 

 while a third was black with a bright-red spot on the 



Fig. 61. A beetle which attacks cocoa trees. 



under side of its body, reminding him of what his 

 teacher had once said about spiders: "None around 

 here are considered poisonous, but the black one 

 with a red spot has a bad reputation." 



