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which the city stands. We subsequently found these 

 nests in tolerable abundance in a deep shady lane near 

 a restaurant called Mon E.epos, on the same side of 

 the river, but rather farther up. 



Here the hedge banks were high, and the soil was 

 composed of a fine even-grained loam of great depth, 

 which permitted the spiders to carry their tubes very 

 far down, some of them attaining a length of 15 

 inches. 



This made it very difficult to follow them through- 

 out their whole course and so to assure oneself of the 

 real structure of the nests, but I succeeded in doing 

 this in twelve instances. 



In every one of these I found the tube cylindrical 

 and unbranched throughout, and destitute of any 

 trace of a lower door. 



This deficiency alone distinguishes the present type 

 from that to which the nest of Nemesia Eleanora 

 belongs ; the latter being of the double-door and the 

 former of the single-door, unbranched wafer type. 



But perhaps it may be asked whether it is safe to 

 assume that because twelve examples of this nest 

 were found to correspond in structure, and were 

 tenanted by the same occupant, that therefore all the 

 Bordeaux nests in which this particular spider might 

 be found would present similar peculiarities. 



I greatly hope that other naturalists will put this 

 question to the test of actual investigation on the 

 spot, but I do not hesitate to assert my conviction 

 that this will prove to be the case. 



The result of my experience among the nests of 

 the other Nemesias, scores of which I have carefully 

 examined in many widely separated localities, shows 



