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all the sooted lines, she began to replace them in the usual 

 way ; but the arrival of the boat at Mentz put an end to 

 our observations. (J. E.) Bloomfield, the poet, having 

 observed the disappearance of these bits of ravelled web, 

 imagined that the spider swallowed them : and even says 

 that he observed a garden spider moisten the pellets before 

 swallowing them !* Dr. Lister, as we have already seen, 

 thought the spider retracted the threads within the ab- 

 domen. 



* Remains, ii. G2-5. It is a remarkable fact, as recorded from 

 personal obsei'vation by Mr. Bell (British Reptiles), that the toad 

 swallows the cuticle detached from its body during tlie moult which it 

 undergoes. 



