TABLE OF COKTET^TS OF VOLUME IIL 



PART I.— GENERAL HABITS, BIOLOGICAL MISCELLANY, AND 

 ANATOMICAL NOMENCLATURE. 



CHAPTER I. 

 TOILET, DRINKING, BURKOWING, AND SOCIAL HABITS. 



PAGES 



Toilet Habits of Spiders — Toilet Implements — Hair Dressing the Feet — Combing and 

 Washing the Head — Tarantula's Toilet — Toilet Habits compared with Ants — 

 Argiope Cleansing her Feet — Tidy Housekeeping — Clearing away Kubbish — Eating 

 the Web — Penalty of Untidiness — Shamrock Spider — Purseweb Spider— Drinking 

 Habits^Tarantula Drinking — Zillas Drinking — Feeding Habits — Dolomedes— Water 

 Habits — Rafting Spiders — Long Submergence — Burrowing Methods — Lycosa Ti- 

 grina^Maternal Ingenuity — Lycosa — Turret Spider's Building — Flinging Dirt 

 Pellets — Secretiveness — Tunnel of Atypus — Tunnels of Mygalidse — Tarantula 

 Digging her Burrow — Carrying Dirt — California Trapdoor Spiders — Repairing 

 Doors— Branch Nests — Site Mimicry of Cteniza Californica— Tarantula opifex — 

 Professor Wagner, of Moscow — Trapdoor Making Lycosid — Territelarian Archi- 

 tecture — Lycosid Architecture — Comparative Views of Industrial Habits — Young 

 Spiders — Baby Communities — M. Eugene Simon's Discoveries — Incubating Nest — 

 Sociable Epeiras — Cocooning suspends Pugnacity — -IMothers with many Cocoons — 

 Social Theridioids — Tenting Commons of Spiderlings— Uloborus Repuljlicanus — 

 Guarding Cocoons — Orbweaving Neighborhoods — Gregarious Saltigrades 15-43 



CHAPTER II. 



MEMORY, MIMICRY, AND PARASITISM. 



Intelligence and Memory — Cotton Utilized for Doors — Turret Spiders — Memory of 

 Epeira Trifolium —Sense of Location — Insect Slemory — Color IMimicry — Mimicry 

 of Bird Excreta— Ornithoscatoi'des decipiens of Cambridge — Anthroi)omorphism — 

 Evolution of Mimicry — Method of Ovipositing — A Parasitic Larva — John L. 

 Curtis — The Dictyna Parasite — Parasite on Epeira strix — Parasites in Cocoons- 

 Egg Parasites — Mr. Howard's Studies of Ilymenopterous Parasites — Table of Para- 

 sites and Parasitized Spiders — Generalizations — Eelations of Spinning Habits to 

 Parasitism — Cocooning Habit and Parasitism 44-62 



CHAPTER III. 



BIOLOGICAL MISCELLANY. 



Spider Enemies — Wasps Pursuing Spiders — Tube Making Orbweavers — Sitting in the 

 Hub— Fish Killing Spiders— Counterpoise in Web Weaving — Spider Poison — Pro- 

 fessor Bertkau's Experience — Tigrina's Courtship — Mending Snares — Nocturnal and 

 Diurnal Spiders — A Wind Wrecked Web — Mending Foundation Lines — Patching 

 Tubeweavers — Trapdoor Spiders — Intelligence in Locating Nest — Mode of Enter- 

 ing Nest — Mimicry of Site — Tlie Tarantula Hawk — Enemies Influencing Architec- 

 ture — Mimicry — Baby Spiders 63-76 



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