INDEX TO SUPPLEMENT. 303 



Pheidole megacephala, 160 



Pterocles exustus, feeding on seeds collected by ants, 175 



Rohin eating ants, 163 (note) 



Seed-stores of ants, Jewish laws about, 165 



Seeds, intervention of ants necessary to prevent germination of, 172 ; 

 non-germiuation of in granaries, 171 



Wakefield (Mr.), on ants collecting violet seeds, 169 (note) 



PART II.— TRAP-DOOR SPIDERS. 



Ants form a large part of food of trap-door spiders, 237 



Atypus bleodonticus (Sim.), 183 (note) ; piceus (Sulzer), nests of, 182-3, 



248 ; species of in England, 181, 185 

 Australia, nest of wafer type from, 217 



Bates (Mr. H. W.), on the nest of Theraphosa Blondii, 188 

 Beetle (Chrysomela Baiiksii) rejected by trap-door spider, 241 

 Blachtvall (Mr. J.), on the poison of spiders, 201 

 Bordeaux, new type of nest at, 211 

 Brown (Mr. Joshua), discovery of Atypus in England, 185 



California, trap-door spider from, 198-9 ; habits of in captivity, 203, 

 &c. ; indifference to sounds, 206 



Captive spiders, habits of, 203, 218, 242-6 



Caterpillar (larva of Cucullia verhasci), eaten by trap-door spider, 239 



Cell and tube made by N. Eleanora, 218 ; hygrometricity of, 220 



Chrysomela BanJcsii, distasteful to trap-door spider, 241 



Corlc nest, 193; structure of door of, 193 



Cteniza californica (Camb.), 198, 202, 248 ; description of, 260 ; eggs 

 laid by, 203 ; habits of in captivity, 203, &c. ; indifference to 

 sounds, 206 ; mode of excavating, 208 ; fodiens (Walck.), 195, 248, 

 259 ; ionica, 210 ; Moggridgii (Camb.), 196 ; description of, 254 ; 

 habits of in captivity, 243, 246 



Cucullia verhasci, larva of, eaten by trap-door spider, 239 



Cyktauchenius elongatus (Sim.), nest of, 189, 248 



Diagrams representing different types of nest, 193 



Earwig {Forficula) eaten by trap-door spiders, 238 



Eggs of Cteniza californica, 203 



Enemies of spiders, 200, 205 



Enlargement of nests, 245 



Excavation of trap-door nests, 208, 243-1- 



