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The Tube-Constructing Ground-Spider of Nantucket. 



In my rambles over the Island of Nantucket, I frequently 

 noticed circular holes in the ground and sometimes stppped to 

 probe them with a blade of beach grass or a slender twig ; as- 

 tonished to find how straight and deep they were, and once or 

 twice " feeling a bite " at the end of my probe, I determined to 

 ferret out the spider which I was sure inhabited them. I 

 started out one morning in the middle of September, armed Avitli 

 an old hoe and a brass shoe-horn, which proved the most ser- 

 viceable of tools, to a point where I had seen an unusual num- 

 ber of holes. Selecting a good sized hole in the sand, with no 

 plant near by, I first tested its depth and then, leaving the grass- 

 blade in the tube, dug a deeper hole about a decimetre distant, 

 and scraping away the sand from the first hole laid it open from 

 top to bottom. I was rewarded by the discovery at the bottom 



