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The spider can be artificially fed by holding a moth to the 

 hanging globule, to which it can be transfixed by the slightest 

 contact. Occasionally the. filament and globule will be drawn 

 n\) and another manufactured. The spider will ignore a moth 

 wliich is artificially pla^ced along its lines, and apparently its 

 one method of catching them is by the filament and globule. 

 The moth is as helpless when touched by the globule as is a fly 

 on fly-paper. When the insect is secured on the sticky globule 

 it is pulled up, and apparently killed by an injection of venom ; 

 it is then neatly bound in a little bundle, leisurely placed in 

 line with the spider"s head and there held and sucked, the wings 

 being ultimately discarded. 



Probably the study of allied species will reveal other 

 stages in the evolution of this curious habit. Cehenia excavafa, 

 A\hich makes small spherical cocoons, is also without a web. 



LITERATURE CITED. 



(1) 1897. Rainbow. — Proc. Liiui. Soc. N.S.W., xxii, p. 523. 



(2) 1892. E. Simon.— Hist. Nat, Araignees, pp. 883, 88C. 



(3) 1909. Rainbow.— Rec. Austr. Mus., vii. p. 229. 



