26 On the life-historif of Aiyinisi picens. 



contained a living beetle {Nehria ?) without any 



elytra, both ajDparently having been bitten off by the 

 large female Ati/jms, wliich was dead, and its abdomen a 

 heaving mass of minute maggots. I am inclined to think 

 the Nehria had forced its way into the tube, and, not 

 agreeing with the owner, they had come to, not blows, 

 but bites ; and I imagine the spider had managed to 

 pinch off the elytra, and in return the Nehria had given 

 the spider a fatal nip in its abdomen. 



The various photograj^hs illustrative of the life-history 

 of Atypus p)iceus I have made from m}' original drawings. 



