Facts and Thoughts about Spiders. 191 
when the prisoner called it with musical sounds to 
be ted. 
The spiders I have spoken of up till now are 
timid, inoffensive creatures, chiefly of the Epeira 
family; but there are many others exceedingly 
high-spirited and, like some of the most touchy 
hymenopteras, always prepared to “‘greatly quarrel” 
over matters of little moment. The Mygales, of 

Mycale fusca, threatening. 
which we have several species, are not to be treated 
with contempt. One is extremely abundant on the 
pampas, the Mygale fusca, a veritable monster, 
covered with dark brown hair, and called in the 
vernacular aranea peluda—hairy spider. In the 
hot month of December these spiders take to roam- 
ing about on the open plain, and are then every- 
where seen travelling in a straight line with a slow 
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