12 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PART VI.— PROVISION FOR NURTURE AND DEFENSE. 



CHAPTER XV. 



PROCURING FOOD AND FEEDING. 



PAOBS 



Food taking Tool.'!— Handling the Snare— Arpuracy of Perception— Treatment of Insects- 

 Swathing the Prey— The Banquet Room- Deporting Swathed Insect.s— Tnis.sing Cap- 

 tives— Aerosoma Trapping Flies -(_)rder and Suborilination of Instincts — Flies Ban- 

 queting with a Spider — Location Controls Food — Prolonged Abstinence — Comparative 

 Feeding Habits— How the Tarantula Feeds— Need of Water— Drinking Habits — 

 Does the Spider Eat Its "Web ?— Wear and Tear of Snares— IMending the Web— En- 

 tangling Insects— The Spider as a Philanthropist — Man as an Ingrate 247-267 



CHAPTER XVI. 



EFFECTS AND USES OF POISON. 



The Fangs and Poison Bag — Blackwall's Experiments — Effect of Epeira's Bite— The 

 Inoculation Test^ — General Harmlessness of Spiders — The Other Side— The Venomous 

 Spider of New Zealand— Latrodectiis mactans— The Popular "Black Spider "—In- 

 definite Testimony — Phidippus morsitans -Effect of Spider Venom on Insects — 

 Poison as a Reserve Weapon — Popular Notions— Medical Imaginings— Queer Reme- 

 dies-Useless Fears 2()S-283 



PART VII.— NESTING HABITS, PROTECTIVE ARCHITECTURE, 

 AND DEVELOPMENT. 



CHAPTEi; XVll. 



NESTINli HABITS AND PROTECTIVE AllCiUTECTURE OF OKBWEAVERS. 



Varieties of Spinningwork — The Nests of Epeira insularis — Leaf rolled Habitations — 

 Woven Tents — Shelter Tents — Spider Seamstres.ses — ^'ariations in Individual Habit — 

 Special Adaptations— The Shamrock Spider's Nest— Epeira domiciliorum and tria- 

 ranea — The Angulata Group — How the Spider Makes a Nest — Sewing Leaves To- 

 gether—Spider Upholstery — Nest of the Young — ^The Nest of Ejieira thaddeus— The 

 Domed Tent fif Triaranea — Laliyrinthea's Nest — The Leafy Canopy of Labyi'inthea — 

 Origin of the Nest making Habit — Intelligent Selection — Design Showed in Sewing — 

 Nesting Industry Protective — N'arious Forms of Tents Summarized 2S4 .■>12 



CHAPTER .Will. 



NEST MAKIN(i : ITS ORIGIN AND USE : DEVELOPMENT IN VARIOUS TRIBES. 



Comparative Studies^Nests of Tiibeweavers — Saltigrades— Lineweavers — Theridiuni ripar- 

 ium, the Prince of Spider .\rchitects— Mode of Building— Use of ,\rtificial Material - 

 Nesting Snares of Linyphia — A Tent Among the Morning (ilories— Territelarian 

 Tubes — Atypus and Cyrtauchenius — Nesting Hal)it of Citigradcs — Of Laterigrades — 

 One Common and Typical Form of Nest — The .Modes of Making Nests — Method of 

 Atyp\is-Of the Mygalidie— Of the Water Sjiirler- Of Sj^'ckled Agalcna— Unity of 

 Method in All Tribes — Nest Parasitism — Squatter Sovereignty — Comparison with 

 Other Orders— Tulie making Larvte — Nests of the Caddis Fly Larva— Leaf thatche<i 

 Nest of the Bag Worm— Nest of a Theridioid Spider— The I./eaf roller Tortricid 

 Moth — Shamrock Spider's Nest in the Ferns — The .Shell of Diftlugia — Catholic Re- 

 semblance in E.xternal Architecture — Creation's Ilarnionv 31.3-33.5 



