INDEX. 155 



Captive trap-door spiders, 118. 122, 14-3. 



Claws, compared in difterent trap-door spiders, 86; retractile, 87 (note). 

 Construction of trap-door nests, 118, 122, 123, 149. 

 Cork nests, 80, 88, 94, 97, 116, 124, 131, 132, 141. 

 Costa (0. G.), on Mygale (Xemesia) meridionalis, 105, 137. 

 Ctexiza ariana, 115,135. 141; cedi/icatorius, So ; fodiens, 89 ; ionica, 

 91 ; nidulans. 81. 



Double-door branched nest, 80, 98, 103-106, 131, 

 Double-door unbranched nest, 80, 98, 106, 111, 131. 

 Dufour (Leon), on tbe nest of Ltcosa tarentula, 146. 



Enemies of spiders, 101, 134. 



EPEiRA/ascmfa, cocoon of, 76. 



Erber, on the nocturnal habits of Cxeniza ariana, 115, 135, 141. 



Geographical range of species of trap-door spiders, 131, 132, 133, 143. 

 Gosse (P. H.), on the single-door wafer nest in Jamaica, 80-83. 



Instinct (?) of nest building in veiy yoting spiders, 123, 126, 128. 



Lucas (H.), on spiders having retractile claws, 87. 

 Lycosa tarentula, M. Dufour on the nest of, 146. 



Male of i^EiiESiA Eleanora, 109, 115. 

 Mtgalidj:, name changed to Territelari^, 75. 



Nemesia ccB'inentaria, 73, 92, 97, resisting when the door is touched, 

 94-96; celUcola, Ul,U7,U8; Eleanora, 98,106, 108, 112; Man- 

 derstjernce, 147 ; meridionalis, 98, 101, 137. 



Nest of Lycosa tarentula^, 146. 



Nocturnal habits of trap-door spiders, 115, 116. 



Olivier, on cork nests at Hj^eres, 115. 



Rossi (P.), on CiExizA/ofZi'ens, 73. 



Resistance of spiders when doors are touched, 94-96, 100, 112. 



Saunders (S. S.), on Cteniza {Mygale) ionica, 91, 122. 

 Sauvages (Abbe), on Nemesia ccementaria, 73. 

 Selection of materials for trap-doors, 119, 120. 

 Sells (W.), on the nest of Cteniza nidulans, 83. 

 Single-door wafer nests, 80, 131. 



Tarsi of spiders furnished with a viscous secretion, enabling them to 



traverse perpendicular polished surfaces, 87. 

 Territelari.k a sub-order of Arane^, formerly called Mygalid.e, 75. 



