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is of a rich black color, with antenna claws of bright emerald- 

 green. It is spread through most of Europe, and lives under cor- 

 nices, in the cracks of walls, and clefts of rock. While spiders of 

 every other type have eight eyes, these tubicolar species have 

 only six, those which look backward being wanting. They would 

 be of no use to an animal living in a hole which is closed at 

 one end. 



In the intertropical regions, especially in the Antilles, Guiana, 

 and Brazil, there live enormous spiders which the European 



Fig. 12. — Bird-Eating Spidbb killing a Humiuing-Bibd. 



colonists call spider-crabs, and naturalists mygales. In them, 

 suppleness and agility are united with muscular strength. Of all 

 the representatives of the race which now engages our attention, 

 the greatest physical power is exhibited in these. The mygales 



