CONTENTS OF VOLUME III. 



PART I.— GENERAL HABITS AND SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES. 



Toilet Habits— Toik't Implements— Toilet IMethods— Hiiir-dressing the Feet— The Tarantula's 

 Toilet — Comj)are(l with Ants — House Cleaning — ^AVorking from a Swinging Platfoi-m— 

 Peril of Untidiness— Purseweb Spider's Cleanliness — Drinking Habits — Tarantula at the 

 Bowd — Lugging Drops of Mist— Drinking the Dew — Swaying the Body — Pholcus as a 

 Dervish — Night Habits — Prowling — Sitting in the Hub — Water Habits — Rafting Dolo- 

 medes — Burrowing Methods — The Tiger Spider — Turret Spider — Tarantula's Pick and 

 Wheelbarrow — Tigrina's Courtship — Mating of Dictyna philoteichous — Moulting Habits 

 in various Tribes — Wagner's Notes — Renewal of Lost Limbs — The Process Descrilied — 

 Weather Prognostication — Stories and Traditions — Records of Several Years — Arachne as a 

 Weather "Indicator" — Superstitions about Spiders — Good Luck — Money-spinners — Spi- 

 der Silk — Its Use in the Arts — Its Economical A'alue. 



PART II.— DESCRIPTION OF ORBWEAVING SPECIES. 



PART III.— COLORED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES AND EXPLANATIONS. 



