12 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



WEATHER PROGNOSTICATIONS, SUNDRY SUPERSTITIONS, COMMERCIAL VALUE 



OF SPIDER SILK. 



PAGE.S 



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

 Weather and Webs — Orbweavere no Weather Prophets — Spider Superstitions — 

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

 of Spider Silk — 1\I. Bon's Pioneer Attempts — Reaumur's Results — Abbe Termeyer's 

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

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



CHAPTER V. 



MOULTING HABITS OF SPIDERS. 



Moulting of Young — Cannibalism — Young Epeiras — Mode of jNIoulting — 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 — Effect of Insect Stings — Protective Habits — Facility in Moulting — Moulting 

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

 in Males — Peckham's Studies of Attidfo — 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 ^1. 



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 — LTse 

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

 Ducts 116-131 



PART II.— DESCRIPTION OF GENERA AND SPECIES. 



Orbitelarise Defined — Habits and Classification — The Name of the Order — Aranese — 

 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 — Cyrtojihora — 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— Tlieridium — Tubeweavers — Agalena — Dictyna — Trapdoor 

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

 Citigrades— Lycosa— Pucetia 132-277 



