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I have watched the proceedings of the young 

 spiders, when taken from the mother's nest, in the 

 following species : Nemesia Manclerstjernce, N. Elea- 

 nor a, N. covcjener, and N. Moggridgii, the three first 

 constructing wafer, and the last a cork nest. All of 

 these very young spiders will excavate their own 

 tubes and bring out pellets of the earth, which closely 

 resemble those carried out from their galleries by 

 the ants. 



As has been stated before, the young brood, while 

 still in the mother's nest, will often comprise indivi- 

 duals of different sizes, and though the majority are 

 no larger than the baby-spider represented at Fig. 

 B 2, PL IX., Ants and Spiders, some may occa- 

 sionally be found that are fully twice as large. 



The little nests which they make in captivity 

 vary accordingly in size. Thus, out of sixteen 

 young taken from the mother's nest {N. Eleanord), 

 eleven, three days after capture, had made nests in the 

 earth of a flower-pot, and the wafer doors of six of 

 these nests measured 2 lines across, of four 2| 

 lines, and of one 8 lines. The first nests of another 

 similar lot of young Eleanora spiders had w^afer doors 

 measuring respectively 2, 2J, 2J, 3 and 3 lines. In 

 another case when I captured fourteen young (the 

 entire brood found in the nest of the mother, N. 

 MandersfjerniB), after the lapse of five days every one 

 of them had made a nest, but these were smaller and 

 more uniform, ten of the wafer doors measuring 2 

 lines across, one 1|, and one 2 J. 



These little spiders need to be kept constantly sup- 

 plied with flies, which should be killed and placed near 

 their nests ; they are ofteu so greedy that they will 



