CHAPTER IX. 
THE SPIDER—INDUSTRY—THE STOPPAGE. 
BEFORE we pass on to those insect communities 
with which the latter portion of this volume will 
be occupied, let us speak here of a solitary in- 
dividual. 
Higher, and yet lower, than the insect, the 
spider is separated from it by its organization, 
but connected with it by its instincts, wants, and 
food. 
A being strongly specialized in two particulars, 
it is excluded from the great classes of the animal 
kingdom, and stands isolated, as it were, in crea- 
tion. 2 
In the fertile countries of the tropics, where game abounds, it lives 
with its fellows. Some are said to weave around a tree one immense 
net, common to all, whose avenues they guard in perfect agreement. 
