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A. £!. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 



their Webb into the Air, where the Wind carries it from Tree to 

 Tree. This Webb, when finisht, will snare a Bird as big as a 

 Thrush. Your self may prove it, for I have sent you some." 



No representatives of the Harvest-men (Phalangidce), Scorpions,* 

 Whip-scorpions, nor Book-scorpions, are yet known in Bermuda. 



Large spiders of the Mygale group have not yet been reported. 



Of the 33 species of spiders now recorded from Bermudaf only 



Figure 205. — Silk Spiders, both females; a, dorsal ; b, profile view; % nat. size. 



Phot, by A. H. V. 



two or three are peculiar to the islands, so far as positively known. 

 Most of the others are either widely diffused species, or else pertain 

 to the West Indies and southern United States. Some of the latter 

 may have been indigenous, like the Silk-spider, but most of them 

 have undoubtedly been introduced by commerce, for spiders are 

 admirably adapted for transportation by vessels. 



* After the above was in type, Mr. L. Mowbray of St. George's informed me 

 that he found a scorpion under a stone, several years ago. and that it is still 

 preserved in St. George's. The species is not known. He also says that a 

 vessel loaded with logwood had arrived a few years previously and that scorpions 

 were found in her cargo. Whether any other specimens have been found, I do 

 not know. Such a species might easily become naturalized about St. George's, 

 where there are plenty of ancient stone walls, and long escape observation. 



f A nearly complete list of the known spiders of Bermuda is given by Nathan 

 Banks, in Trans. Conn. Acad., xi, p. 267, 1901. The present list is based on the 

 latter. 



