Pacicvkd.] RE^LATIOXS of IXSECTS TO M.iN. 



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to man. Hentz, our best American authority, after twenty 

 years of study declare! that spiders were not poisonous to 

 man. Bhickwall, the English authority, says that none in 

 England are poisonous, as he allowed them to Lite him ou 



Fig. C2. 



Trap door Spider, Mygale. 



different parts of his person without any harm resulting. 

 Occasionally we see deaths reported from the bite of spiders. 

 A late number of " Nature" contains a notice of the Katipo, 

 or venomous spider of New Zealand. Its bite is " occa- 

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