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smell from the tube, dug it up, and found the spider 

 dead, its abdomen putrid. 



July 7th, 1884, just a year after, I dug up two tubes 

 (example), which I felt sure, from their resemblance to 

 the others, were males ; and so they proved to be, each 

 containing an immature male. These I reset in a small 

 bell-glass, making the holes close to the side, to enable 

 me to watch their movements. Both soon made them- 

 selves at home by carrying their tubes up an inch from 

 the surface, attaching the end to the glass. A short 

 time after one died ; the other lived happy and contented 

 for some time. 



On Oct. 8th I examined the tube, at 10 p.m. ; all 

 quiet. The following morning, at 9 a.m., there was the 

 mature male walking about, having emerged during the 

 night. I noticed that this spider, as it walked round 

 and round, left a silken thread behind; but others, 

 which had been living for some time in the tube with 

 the female, and then escaped, did not in their wandering 

 leave any such thread. 



Although I have searched in every nook and corner, 

 among dead grass, &c., in close proximity to the tubes 

 of the females, I have never yet been so fortunate as to 

 capture a wandering male, though I have since my first 

 capture, Oct. 20th, 1877, obtained twenty-five mature 

 males, all of which I found in the tubes of the females. 

 I therefore conclude that it is the habit of the male to 

 emerge from its tube at night. 



Beside the above number I found seven mature males 

 in their oum tubes, and from these I obtained the 

 following facts : — 



On Oct. 9th, in the evening, I placed a male in a large 

 flower-pot filled with sand to within one inch and a half 

 of the rim : in the centre was a large tube containing a 

 female, placed there the previous day. Next morning 

 (Oct. 10th), on removing the cover, the male was not to 

 be seen, but a newly-mended rent at one side of the tube 

 showed where he had gone. 



Oct. 15th, 1883, in the morning, I found a male in its 

 own tube (example), and, among the debris, almost a 

 perfect skin and part of another. I also dug several 

 tubes containing females, which I disturbed as little as 

 possible. In the afternoon I reset one of them in a 

 12 in. bell-glass, the aerial portion of the tube lying flat 



