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Season), and made upon animals in an unnatural state ; but as, from the 
way in which it is given, it looks m e a general assertion than the 
result of personal observation, I suspect that like many of its class it will 
prove an erroneous one, and that protection is all for which they stand 
indebted to the parent. 
It appears to me that in Spiders the following gradation is in a great 
measure followed. viz. a 
Ist. Those which pay no regard to the cocoons when deposited, and 
desert both them andthe web altogether as soon as the number is com- 
pleted: e.g. Epeira Cacti,* or the Aranea fasciata, Fab. 
2nd. Those which remain in the web, but take no notice of the cocoon 
after it is deposited: e.g. Epeira fasciata, Walck. 
3rd. Those which remain near the cocoon until it hatches, but pay no 
attention to the young: e.g. Epetra castrensis,* &c. 
4th. Those which sit upon the cocoon: e.g. Clubiona, Salticus, &c. 
5th. Those which carry it under the belly when they move, and after- 
wards fix it on the web and partly hold it by their fore legs: e.g. The- 
ridion inflatum.* 
6th. Those which carry it between the mandibles and never quit it 
“until it hatches: e. g. Pholcus phalangioides ; and _ 
7th. Those which carry it always at the anus, and protect the young 
for a certain period: e. g. Lycosa. ; 
This latter, as far as my observations go, is the extent to whieh paren- 
tal affection, as some innocently call it, has carried Spiders ; and although 
a gentleman, in one of the late Numbers of the Zoological Journal, pos- 
sesses a Baucis and Philemon as exemplars of his “ Loves of the Spiders,” 
and seems to hint that the time may not be far distant when the “ etiam 
« in amoribus seva”? may be proved a gross libel upon the lady, yet I 
fear that the matron-like qualities of a dry nurse will even then remain 
* aconsummation to be wished for.’”? By the bye, I suspect that. al- 
ough in that instance the dalliance seemed to last a most unreasonable 
ime, yet that she must either, in the quaint phraseology of old White, 
* As I have never been able to procure the work of M. Walckenaer, and have 
no fuller guide to species than Latreille’s Histoire &c,, I have been obliged ta 
give pro tempore names, by way of distinction. 
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