4 A. TrLLÖREN. SPIDER8 COLLECTED IN FLORIDA. 



poisonous, so that the}^ caji cause illness for a long time, if 

 they bite somebody. The former often visit the houses and 

 are welcome, because they destroy cockroaches. They have 

 a formidable appetite. A specimen kept in confinement in a 

 glassjar together with a 1)rown lizard (Oligosoma) killed and 

 devonred the latter eompletely not even leaving skin or 

 skeleton. Other spiders were caught aniong plants and of 

 these raany had green and yellow colonrs predominant. The 

 »crabspiders (Grasteracantha) had usually their comparatively 

 large nets among the vegetation, often in the orange trees. 

 Large spotted spiders (Nephila) with their long legs ringed 

 with black and yellow used to have their large webs con- 

 sisting of very strong yellow threads stretehed between pines 

 or palmettoes often 5 — 6 feet or more above the ground. 

 Some jumping spiders (Phidippus) used to sit on grass straws 

 with their 1)eautifully shining, greenish jaws visible in such 

 a manner that they could be supposed to attract the prey. 

 3Iany small spiders were collected in the nests of wasps 

 ( dirtflies»). These wasps have namely the habit of storing 

 up great numbers of small spiders as food for their larvae. 



Antiodontes Thorell 1895. 



Fam. Filistatidae. 



Filistata Latr. 1^00. 



1. P. capitata Hextz 1842. 



Of this interesting species several examples are captured 

 by Dr Lönnberg, one of them is a fullgrown male, the others 

 females, the male being about 8 mm., a great female 15 mm. 



The specimens are collected at Orlando and other places 

 in Orange county. 



