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In these experiments one feature was plain, viz. that the 

 spider exhibited its likes and dislikes in the most unmistakable 

 manner, and I am positive that its appetite was by no means 

 sated by the time that the experiments had come to an 

 untimely end. When the butterflies, Ypthiincc pandocus were 

 thrown into the web the spider made a rapid rush at them, 

 and in a moment the victims were engulfed. The Phyto. 

 phagous beetle, a reddish-yellow species of Antijiha, was 

 instivntly seized when it fell into the web, but the spider, after 

 driving her falces into the body of her prey, then paused and 

 appeared to find the copious yellow fluid which exuded from 

 the body of the beetle highly distasteful ; at any rate the 

 beetle was not bitten again, but was spun up in a silken 

 shroud and was suspended by a single strand of silk from the 

 web. The method by which this beetle was enshrouded was 

 interesting to watch. The spider held it by her front pair of 

 legs and caused it to revolve by the help of her mouth parts, 



