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be used simultaneously with the chelicerae for rubbing the feet, 
and not only for holding them in position. 
A specimen of each of the three Ceylon species was kept alive 
by itself in a separate tube about one-third full of carefully packed 
soil. Each made two or three burrows before very long; but 
they rarely entered any of them even by day, and when disturbed 
they never seemed to know where to find them though the whole 
diameter of the tubes was little more than two centimetres. It is 
therefore rather difficult to believe that these burrows are used as 
permanent homes, and this is borne out by the following facts 
concerning the habits of Schizomus crassicaudatus in the open. 
Whenever a specimen of this species was discovered by the 
removal of the brick under which it had been hiding, it would 
dart spasmodically about looking for somewhere to hide again, 
with no more idea than one of the captive specimens just mentioned 
as to where to find a suitable hole; and the hole into which it 
finally disappeared seemed to me to be as a rule a wormtrack or 
something of that kind. Further, it is apparently possible to go 
on collecting specimens from under one brick two or three times a 
week for an indefinite period, each time removing every specimen 
found; which seems to prove conclusively that they can have no 
fixed abode, but wander about from place to place among the 
roots of the grass not far from which they are always found. 
In the case of the shrubbery forms which occurred in extensive 
layers of dead leaves it was impossible for such observations to be 
made; but if these species habitually lived in burrows it is diffi- 
cult to understand why they were most abundant among the 
leaves and not in the soil below them; and why a specimen in 
captivity entirely without cover very rarely entered any of the two 
or three burrows that it made. 
Of what use, except for reproductive purposes, the burrows 
can be it is difficult to see; but of the three specimens which made 
burrows in captivity only one—Schizomus crassicaudatus—pro- 
duced eggs. This one constructed a little cavity against the side 
of the glass tube in which it was confined, at a depth of about 
15 mm. below the surface of the soil (pl. xxiv, fig. 27). As far as 
I could see this nest had no opening, and the Schizomus never left 
it to my knowledge till the eggs disappeared. It was lined with 
soil cemented together in some way; when this lining was shaken 
free from the glass (to which it was similarly cemented) the 
damage was quickly repaired; but unfortunately I never saw this 
being done. The eggs were seven in number, subspherical (flattened 
at the poles), of a glistening white colour, and were neither tightly 
pressed together nor enclosed in a brood-pouch of any kind. 
They were arranged so that one of them was above and one below 
the centre of a ring composed of the five others; the general shape 
of the mass as a whole was approximately spherical, and it 
appeared to be attached to the abdomen only in the region of the 
genital aperture. The abdomen was carried at an angle to the 
rest of the body as shown in the figure. As a rule the creature 
