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whicli was displayed in tlie tube of N. Eleanora. 

 I regretted that I was unable to continue my obser- 

 vations on this captive spider, as it would have been 

 interesting to know how long she would have lived 

 contentedly and in good health under the conditions 

 described above, but I left Mentone at the end of 

 April, and was unable to take her alive with me to 

 England. When removed from her nest in the pot 

 on April 12, she appeared in perfect condition, and I 

 placed her in a hole which I made for her among 

 some stones in a garden at the back of the house, 

 hoping to find her again on my return to Mentone in 

 the autumn ; this hope was, however, not destined to 

 be realized. 



I shall, however, have occasion to speak again of 

 the 3'oung captives of this species {N. Eleanora), in 

 the concluding remarks which will follow these 

 detailed accounts of the nests and their occupants, 

 when the behaviour of captive trap-door spiders gene- 

 rally will be treated of 



The next type of trap-door nest is one to which I 

 have found it difficult to assign a descriptive name, 

 and I am compelled for the present to speak of it as 

 the Ilj/eres double-door branched loafer nest. 



One of its most distinctive features is found in the 

 shape of the lower door, fig. F 1, Plate XIV., and figs. 

 A 1, A 2, Plate XVIII., which may be said to be double, 

 presenting two crowns, one of which fits into the main 

 tube and the other into the branch, but I could not 

 see my way to employing this character in naming 

 the type. The nest is, however, quite distinct from 

 all the others^ and is inhabited by a new species of 



