INDEX OF VOLUME II. 



Abbot, John, 138, 386. 



Abdomen, curious use of, 417. 



Aeoloides saitidis, 397. 



Acrosoma, 339. 



Aerosonia rugosa, 28.5, 289, 375. 



Activity of female, 70. 



Adaptation, 412. 



Adirondack ^Mountains, 463, 466. 



Aeronautic habit, 15, Chapter IX., 256, 399 ; 



flight, 179. 

 African spideri?, 208, 399, 450. 

 Agalena brunnea, 124, 292. 

 Agalena labyrinthea, 29, 45, 122, 189. 

 Agalena Uc-evia, 33, 36, 44, 85, 165, 166, 187, 189, 



208, 211, 236, 251, 2.52, 2.53, 288, 334, 337, 347, 



389 ; cocoons of, 121 ; upholstering of co- 

 coon, 122. 

 Agamic reproduction, 73. 

 Age of spiders, 341 ; influencing color, 331, 



428; of ants, 427. 

 Agrceca brunnea, 126, 132. 

 Agrceca proxinia, 12(i. 

 Alaska, s[)ider fauna, 97. 

 " Albatross," Fish Commission steamer, 334. 

 Alexandria Bay, New York, 131. 

 Amber bay, 466 ; collecting, 465 ; embalming, 



468 ; island, 466 ; stores of, 464 ; tree, 462 ; 



sources of, 462. 

 Andover Review, 280. 

 Androgeus, 452. 

 Animals, senses of, 345. 

 Annisquam, 336. 

 Anthrobia mammouthia, 154, 156, 189, 286, 



291, 335. 

 Anthrocophila antiqua, 455. 

 Ant formed spiders, 357, 369. 

 Ant thrush, 3(i3. 

 Ants, 427 ; cutting ants, 353 ; destroyed by 



birds, 362 ; driver ants, 363 ; eat spiders, 



364. 

 Arachnophagous wasps, 388. 

 Aranea columliipe, 4.59, 461. 

 Archea paradoxa, 457, 466, 46S, 469. 



Architecture, 3.55 ; influenced b)' motherhood, 

 185 ; inspired by motherhood, 64. 



Arctosa cinerea, 393. 



Argiope argenteola, 83, 84 ; construction of 

 cocoon, 84, 38S. 



Argiope argyraspis, 21, 71, 289, 334, 338, 347, 

 349, 386 ; cocoon of, manner of suspen- 

 sion, 82 ; hung among wild flowers, 83. 



Argiope aurelia, life of young, 228, 229. 



Argiope coi)hinaria, 20, 21, 22, 26, 71, 188, 189, 

 201, 203, 207, 209, 210, 288, 300, 329, 334, 338, 

 346, 348, 3.50, 395, 398, 426; cocoon, con- 

 struction of, 1.59, Chapter II.; sites of, 75; 

 methods of supension, 7(i ; among grasses 

 and wild flowers, 77; stability of poise, 

 78 ; hung to a curtain, 79 ; internal struct- 

 ure of, 80; variation in structure, 81; ovi- 

 positing, 160; spinning the brown pad- 

 ding of her cocoon, 160; weaving the co- 

 coon case, 161, 162 ; winding the thread, 

 163 ; mechanical ingenuity in weaving, 

 163 ; weaving, Argiope's method of, 163 ; 

 decline and death of, 419 ; male, courtshi|i 

 of, 18 ; maternity, 19 ; pairing of, 37 ; sev- 

 eral cocoons, 108, 110. 



Argiope fenestrinus, 84. 



Argiope multiconcha, 108, 188. 



Argyrodes argyrodes, see Argyrodes trigonum. 



Argyrodes piraticum, 388, 390. 



Argyrodes trigonum, 113, 114, 376, 389; see 

 Argyrodes argyrcjdes, 3cS9. 



Argyroeiseira hortorum, 39, 299. 



Argyroneta aquatica, 24, 29, 65, 125, 126, 188, 

 239, 393 ; cell and eggs of, 125 ; male and 

 female, 23 ; pairing, 45. 



Ariadne bicolor, 134. 



Arthropoda, 314. 



Astia vittata, 262, 295 ; dance, 53, 54. 



Atkinson, George T., 416. 



Atrophy of eyes, 292. 



Atta fervens, 357. 



Attidae, 69, 333, 359, 364 ; colors of, 327 ; pair- 

 ing of, 50 ; attitudes in courtship, 59. 



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