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third moult the lid is put on and the increase in the size of the burrow is 

 kept up bj cleaning out and adding to the lid until the maximum is 

 reached. When the lid is broken off a fresh one is soon built from the 

 hinge inwards. In the wet weather in moist situations the burrow is 

 often half full of water. This does not seem to incommode the spiders as 

 ther have even been found below the water level. 



The presence of enemies, especially the larger predatory wasps, makes 

 it necessary for the spider to seal its burrow by spinning round the edge 

 of the lid on the inside surface. Occasionally one finds the l)ottle-shaped 

 pupa cases of the wasps in the bui'row with the fragments of the spider 

 exoskeleton. 



Agivn'ppe snhtriiitu, Camb. (PI. xii., fig. 3, and PI. xxi., fig. 32), is far 

 less abundant ; it has a rounder lid, and is less easy to find than the fore- 

 going. It is very variable in size, and occasionally one finds a giantess of 

 of such proportions that it is hai'd to recognise as the ordinary form. 

 The habits of this species closely agree with with those of the Blal-istoaiK. 

 Although occasional specimens of other species may be found on the plains' 

 they are chiefly met with as we ascend the foothillls of the Mount Lofty 

 Ranges. Thus on Black Hill we find AfiKnippc modesta, sp. nov. (PI. xiii., 

 figs. 4 and 5 and PI. xxi., figs. 47 and 48), and the peculiar Lampropodvs 

 scivtillans, gen. et sp. nov., of the group Diplothelefie. 



The males of the latter species had been long known to us from the 

 sea coast and Mallala, but it was not until 1917 that we found the female, 

 and established the fact that a member of the Barychelinese can build a. 

 nest and lid like those of the Ctenizese (PI. xvii., figs. 17-20 and PI. xviii., 

 figs. 21 and 22) ; on this occasion two specimens were found. 



The higher altitudes of the Mount Lofty Kanges, where the rainfall 

 varies from forty to, in places, fifty inches and over, has proved to be very 

 rich in general species, and certainly it has been well worked. Bh(kii>tovia 

 aurea, Hogg, is still found there, and often shews a peculiar modification 

 of the lid, which is furnished with accui'ately interlocking dentations. 

 Missuleiui rnbr(>C(tpitat<(, Aussr. and M. oceator'm^ Walck., occur frequently, 

 the highly coloured males of the former being most often sent in. 



In June, 1908, a female of the latter was discovered in the lining 

 tube intact, and this was found to have a door of the wafer type without 

 any admixture of earth Subsequently, two more 3//.sK«/e»(« burrows were 

 found with wafer doors, in 1910, at Terowie. 



The roadside cuttings around Mount Lofty and Aldgate, and 

 thence to Mylor, have been most thoroughly searched and have yielded a 

 number of species of Aijanippc, Byarcyo^A, Annadalia, Ananis and Chenis- 

 tonia. One of the commonest is A)i((»ie vebidosn, sp. nov., which is found 

 practically evei*3'whei'e and which builds the most ingenious nest yet found 

 amongst the Austi-alian Territellaria-. Other species of Aiianic such as 

 A. hin'ii, Kulcz., .1 . [innidix, sp. nov. and .1. hirsufit, sp. nov., are content with 

 a burrow closed with a hymen, with a smnll central aperture to squeeze 

 through. 



Tlie nest of .1. nchnlosd (PI. xx., ligs. 2(), 27, 28), if in an ex])osed 

 place, has a colliii- ol' h'aves or grass to turn olT the rain. As a rule the 



