10 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Great Ant Thrush — Raiding the Driver Ants — Are AVasps Mimicked ? — Ants eat 

 Spiders — Form Mimicry of Environment — Tetragnatha extensa — ^Mimicking Knots 

 and Buds — Color Mimicry — Ambush in Flowers— Misumena vatia — Mimicking ^Vild 

 Flowers — English INIimics — ^Mimicking Bark and the Ground — Natural Selection and 

 Mimicry — ^Metallic Colors — Cocoon ^Mimicry — Cyclosa caudata and her Cocoon — 

 Young Mimics — A Savage's Decoration — Protective Resemblance 352-377 



CHAPTER XIII. 



ENEMIES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON HABIT. 



Perils of Spiders — Season Changes— Animal Destroyers— Rats eat Spiders — Sheep also — 

 Cannibalism — Goethe on Robber Wasps— The ilud Dauber's Nest— The Blue Wa-sp 

 hawking for Sjiiders — A AA^aspling Larva at work — Wasp Poison— The Cicada 

 Wasp — Pipes of Pan — The Tarantula Killer — Special Selection — Characteristics of 

 Captives — Social Wasps — Nest Parasitism — The Pii-ate Spider — A Spider Feud — 

 Spider Duels — Body Parasites — Parasites on Eggs — Saltigrade Guests — Parasitized 

 Cocoons — Jlold, Flies, and Birds — Foolishly Hostile Man — Arachne as a Forest 

 Keeper — Arachne a Philanthropist — Influence of Enemies on Industry^Moulting 

 Tents — Climate Covers — Self Protective Industry— The Tiger Spider and her 

 Bower — Elis 4-notata — The Burial of Lycosa — Lycosa tarentula — Trapdoor Spi- 

 ders — Strange Towers and their Builders — Secret Chambers in the Earth — A new 

 Use of the Abdomen — Shaping the Cocoon 378-418 



CHAPTER XIV. 



DEATH AND ITS DISGUISES, HIBERNATION AND DEATH FEIGNING. 



The Decline of Argiope — Fashions of Death — First Stages of ^Mortality — Sexta's Death 

 Record — Death after Cocooning — Limit of Life — Lubbock's old Ant Queen — The 

 oldest Spider — Tarantula's Age — '\\'inter Habits — ^Mnter Dens— Winter Tents — 

 Hunting on the Snow — Ililjernation — Sudden Resuscitation — Death Feigning — Not 

 Fear Paralysis, but 'Possuming — The Peckhams' Studies — Wonderful Shamming — 

 A Spider Stoic — Darwin's View — Origin of Death Feigning — Voluntary Hypnotism 

 among Men — Purpose of the Habit — Fabre's Studies 419—145 



PART VI.— FOSSIL SPIDERS. 



CHAFrER XV. 



ANCESTRAL SPIDERS AND THEIR HABITS. 



Sites of American Fossils — Scudder's Studies — Lake Florissant — Cause of Entombment — 

 Manner of Entombment — Volcanic Showers — Oeningen Spiders — Fossil Nephila — 

 Climatic Conditions — European Fossil Spiders — Fossil and Existing Fauna — The 

 Oldest known Spider — Eoatypus woodwardii — Fossil Tunnelweavers — Geological 

 Position of American Fossil Spiders — Fossil Spinningwork — Fossil Cocoons — The- 

 ridiosoma Cocoon — LTnmodifled Industry — The Amber Tree — Sources of Amber — 

 Amber Land — Amber Bay — Trees running Amber — Deep Sea Storehouses — Break- 

 ing up the Storehouses — Climate of Amber Land — Insect Food of Amber Sjiiders — 

 Spiders of the Amber — Archea paradoxa — Embalming Amber Insects — A Romance 

 of Amber Land 446-469 



