TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. 



PART I.— COURTSHIP AND MATING OF SPIDERS. 



CHAPTER I. 

 WOOING AND MATING OF ORBWEAVERS. 



PAGES 



Tlie Jlystery of ;Mating — The Male searching for his Mate — Males relatively Fewer — 

 JNIales before IMating — Argiope cophinaria — Stages of Courtship — Aranead Lovers — A 

 Lover's Peril — Relative Sizes of Sexes — An unequally matched Couple — Xephila 

 and Argiope — Sexes that live together — The Water Spider— Quarrels of Males — Fe- 

 male Combativeness — IMethods of Pairing among Orbweavers — A Love Bower . . 15-40 



CHAPTER n. 



COURTSHIP ANB PAIRING OF THE TRIBES. 



Love Dances of Saltigrades — Pairing of Linyphia marginata — The Period of Union — In- 

 terruptions — Agalena n?evia pairing — Love beneath the Waters — Caressing — Pairing 

 of Laterigrade-s — Lycosids — Love Dances of the Saltigrades — Love Dances of Birds — 

 Displays are to attract Females — A Saltigraile Harem — Color Development .... 41-(i0 



CHAPTER HI. 

 COMPARATIVE VIEWS OF VARIOUS MATING HABITS. 



Value of general Habits — Value of spinning Habit — Maternity inspires Insect Archi- 

 tecture — Spider Industry influenced by Maternity — By sexual Feeling in Males — 

 Disproportion of Size in Sexes — Sexes of equal Sizes — Numerical Propfirtion of 

 Sexes — Relative Activity of Sexes — Spermatozoa — Agamic Reproduction Gl-7-1 



PART II.— MATERNAL INDUSTRY AND INSTINCTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



MATERNAL INDUSTRY : COCOONS OF ORBWEAVERS. 



Cocoiming Sites — Argiope'.s Cocoons — Leafj' Canopies — Contents of Coco(jns — The Egg 

 IMass — Argiope cophinaria — Epeira Cocoons — Cocooning Tents — Cocoons of Zilla — 

 Cocoon of Nephila — Gasteracantha — Spiders with several Cocoons — Tetragnatha 

 extensa — Cyrtarachne's Cocoon — The Cocoon String of Labyrinthea — Cyclosa bi- 

 furca — Basilica Spider's Cocoon — Plumefoot Spider's Cocoon — Uloborus — Double Co- 

 cooning in Argiope 75-110 



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