12 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



WEATHER PROGNOSTICATIONS, SUNDRY SUPERSTITIONS, COMMERCIAL VALUE 



OP SPIDER SILK. 



PAGES 



Weather Prognostication — Stories and Traditions — The Popular Notion — Notes of 

 Weather and Webs— Orbweavers no Weather Prophets— Spider Superstitions- 

 Money Spinners— Luck in Seeing Spiders— Spider Silk in Industrial Art— Sources 

 of Sjiider Silk— M. Bon's Pioneer Attempts— Reaumur's Results— Abbe Termeyer's 

 Experiments— Reeling Silk from Spiders— Professor Wilder's Experiments— Nephila 

 as a Silk Producer— An Englishman's Attenijit 77-89 



CHAPTER V. 



MOULTING HABITS OF SPIDERS. 



Moulting of Young— Cannibalism— Young Epeiras— Mode of ISIoulting- Baby Congre- 

 gations—Young Turret Spiders — Young Dolomedes — Theridioids — Manner of 

 Moulting — Orbweavers' Moulting — After the Moult— Argiope's Moulting— Liny- 

 phia— Medicinal Spider— Lycosids— Tarantula— Periodicity of Moulting— Modifying 

 Agents— EflFect of Insect Stings— Protective Habits— Facility in Moulting— Moulting 

 Dangers— Limbs Lost in IMoulting— Effect of Nourishment— Color Changes— Change 

 in Males— Peckham's Studies of Attidse— Laterigrades— Change in Tarantulas- 

 Summary — Periodicity of Moulting — Physiological Moulting Changes— Forming 

 New Skin— Professor Wagner's Studies— Blood— Moulting of Hairs— Origin of New 

 Hairs— Poison Gland— Abdominal Muscles— Legs— Spinning Organs— Summary . . 90-115 



CHAPTER VI. 



REGENERATION OF LOST ORGANS AND ANATOMICAL NOMENCLATURE. 



Renewal of Lost Organs— Dr. Heineken's Observations— Wagner's Work— Lost Limbs- 

 Imperfect Reproduction— The Huntsman Spider— Periodicity of Regeneration — 

 Atrophy of Old Tissues— Formation of Cicatrix— Red Blood Cells— Atrophy of 

 Muscles— Origin and Development of a New Leg— Origin of Hairs— Anatomical 

 Nomenclature— The Eyes — Cephalothorax — Abdomen— Epigynum and Parts— Use 

 of Male Palps — Cymbium — Alveolus — ILematodocha— Receptaculum seminis — Blood 

 Ducts 116-131 



PART II.— DESCRIPTION OF GENERA AND SPECIES. 



Orbitelarije Defined — Habits and Classification — The Name of the Order — Aranere — 

 Changes in Nomenclature — Law of Priority — The Abbot Manuscripts — Influence 

 on the Hentzian Names — Description of Genera and Species — Epeira — Marxia — 

 Ordgarius — Verrucosa — Kaira — Wagneria — Wixia — Carepalxis — Gea — Gastera- 

 cantha — Acrosoma — Cercidia — Argiope — Cyclosa — Cyrtophora — Zilla — Singa — Argyro- 

 epeira — Abbotia — Larinia — Drexelia — Meta — Nephila — Hentzia — Tetragnatha — Eug- 

 natha — Eucta — Pachygnatha — Uloborus — Hyptiotes — Theridiosoma — Samples, of Ab- 

 bot's Manuscript Drawings — Theridiuin — Tube weavers — Agalena — Dictyna — Trapdoor 

 Spiders — Cteniza — Atypus — Misumena — Attoids — Phidippus — Zygobalus — Astia — 

 Citigrades— Lycosa— Pucetia 132-277 



