TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOLUME III. 



PART L— GENERAL HABITS, BIOLOGICAL MISCELLANY, AND 

 ANATOMICAL NOMENCLATURE. 



CHAPTER I. 

 TOILET, DRINKING, BUKROWING, AND SOCIAL HABITS. 



PAGES 



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

 Wa.shing the Head — Tarantula's Toilet — Toilet Habits compared with Ants — 

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

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

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

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

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

 Pellets — Secret! veness — Tunnel of Atypus — Tunnels of Mygalidte — Tarantula 

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

 Doore— Branch Nests — Site ISIimicry of Cteniza Californica — Tarantula opifex — 

 Professor Wagner, of Moscow — Ti-apdoor JIaking 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— Mothers with many Cocoons — 

 Social Theridioids — Tenting Commons of Spiderlings— TJloborus Republicanus — 

 Guarding Cocoons — Orbweaving Neighborhoods — Gregarious Saltigrades 15-43 



CHAPTER II. 



MEMORY, MIMICRY, AND PARASITISM. 



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

 Epeira Trifolium —Sense of Location — Insect Memory — Color IVIimicry — Mimicry 

 of Bird Excreta— Ornithoscatoides decipiens of Cambridge — Anthropomorphism^ 

 Evolution of Mimicry — Jlethod 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 Hymenopterous Parasites — Table of Para- 

 sites and Parasitized Spiders — Generalizations — Relations 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 Be*'tkau'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 — The Tarantula Hawk — Enemies Influencing Architec- 

 ture — Mimicry — Baby Spiders 63-7H 



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