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only in an inverted position, for tLey really hung 

 downwards from the under side of the net. 



These eggs were gre\ash white or pale brown, and 

 varied in shape from globose to oblong. 



All w^ere very small, the largest only measuring | 

 line in its greatest length, but it is doubtful whether 

 any of these eggs were fertile, and, though they 

 appeared full and plump, man}'- presented an irregular 

 and fissured surface. 



A fortnight later (July 27) another cluster of eggs 

 was laid, and this time between the hours of five and 

 eight P.M. When the lamp was brought in at the 

 latter hour, I perceived what I took to be a drop of 

 water hanging from the gauze cover above and rather 

 in front of the spider's door, the very position oc- 

 cupied by the cluster of eggs previously described. 

 On closer inspection this proved to be a drop of a 

 pellucid colourless liquid, in which some thirty eggs 

 floated. One Qg^ was laid on the gauze at some 

 distance from the main group, and several w^ere also 

 attached to the inside of the tin box. 



At midnight I found that the drop had coagulated 

 and contracted, and by the following morning the 

 mass was quite dry and resembled the former group, 

 only that it was not quite so convex. 



Some of the eggs forming this cluster w^re much 

 larger than any in the preceding one, and one 

 measured as much as a line in length b}" half a line 

 in breadth. This group is shown magnified at fig. B, 8, 

 Plate XV., and some of the separate eggs more highly 

 magnified at fig. B, 9. 



Between this date and the end of November when 

 the spicier died, eggs were laid on seven distinct occa- 



