10 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Great Ant Thrush — Raiding the Driver Ants — Are Wasps Miniiekeil '.' — Ants eat 

 Spiders — Form Mimicry of Environment — Tetragnatlia extensa — Miiuiel<ing Knots 

 and Ends — Color Mimicry — Amliusli in Flowers— JNIisumena vatia — Mimicking AVild 

 Flowers — English Mimics — ^Mimicking Bark and the Ground — Natural Selection and 

 Mimicry — INIctallic Colors — Cocoon Mimicry — Cyclosa caudata and her Cocoon — 

 Young Mimics — A Savage's Decoration— Protective Resemblance 352-:!77 



CHAPTER XIII. 



ENEMIES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON HABIT. 



Perils of Spiders — Season Changes— Animal Destroyers— Rats eat Spiders— Sheep also— 

 Cannibalism — Goethe on Roliber Wasps— The Mud Dauber's Nest— The Blue Wasp 

 hawking for Spiders— A Waspling Larva at work — Wasp Poison— The Cicada 

 Wasp — Pijjes of Pan — The Tarantula Killer — Special Selection — Characteristics of 

 Captives — Social AVasps — Nest Parasitism — The Pirate Spider — A Spider Feud — 

 Spider Duels — Body Parasites^Parasites on Eggs — Saltigrade Guests — Parasitized 

 Cocoons — Mold, Flies, and Birds — Foolishly Hostile jMan — Ai'achne as a Forest 

 Keeper — Arachne a Philanthropist — Influence of Enemies on Industry — Moulting 

 Tents— Climate Covers — Self Protective Industry— The Tiger Spider and her 

 Bower — Elis 4-notata — The Burial of Lycosa — Lycosa tarentula — Trapdoor Spi- 

 ders — Strange Towers and their Builders — Seci'et Chambers in the Earth— A new 

 Use of the Abdomen — Shaping the Cocoon o7.s-4I,S 



CHAPTER XIV. 



DEATH AND ITS DISGUISES, HIBERNATION AND DEATH FEIGNING. 



The Decline of Argiope — Fashions of Death — First Stages of Mortality — Sexta's Death 

 Record — Death after Cocooning — I^imit of Life — Lubliock's old Ant Queen — The 

 oldest Spider— Tarantula's Age— ^^'inter Habits — Winter Dens— Winter Tents- 

 Hunting on the Snow — Hibernation — Sudden Resuscitation— Death Feigning— Not 

 Fear Paralysis, but 'Possuming — The Peckhams' Studies — Wonderful Shamming — 

 A Spider Stoic— Darwin's View — Origin of Death Feigning — Voluntary Hypnotism 

 among Jlen — Pur]iose of the Habit — Fabi'e's Studies 419— 14.5 



PART VI.— FOSSIL SPIDERS. 



CHAPTER XV. 



ANCESTRAL SPIDERS AND THEIR HABITS. 



Sites of American Fossils — Scudder's Studies — Lake Florissant — Cause of Entombment — 

 Manner of Entombment— Volcanic Showers — Oeningen Spider.s— Fossil Nephila— 

 Climatic Conditions— European Fossil Spiders — Fossil and Existing Fauna— The 

 Oldest known Spider — Eoatypus woodwardii — Fossil Tunnelweavers — Geological 

 Position of American Fossil Spiders — Fossil Spinningwork — Fossil Cocoons — The- 

 ridiosoma Cocoon — Unmodified Industry — The Amber Tree— Sources of Amber — 

 Amber Land — Amber Bay — Trees running Amber — Deep Sea Storehouses — Break- 

 ing up the Storehouses — Cellmate of Andjer Land— Insect Food of Amber Spiders — 

 Spiders of the Andier — Archea paradoxa — Embalming Amber Insects — A Romance 

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