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Insect offered as food. Treatment by spider. 
i | 
Hymeno-  Trigona apicalis (5) | Thrown out of the web. 
ptera Trigona lacteifascia (2) | One tasted, but then re- 
jected ; one thrown out 
of the web. 
Tasted, and reserved for 
future consumption. 
Coleoptera  Antipha sp. (1) 
Riptortus pedestris (2) | Instantly devoured. 
Hemiptera | Cosmolestes picticeps (4) Thrown out of the web. 
| Velinus nigrigenu (1) | Thrown out of the web ; 
| great caution exercised. 
Musca sp. (1) 
Diptera | Instantly devoured. 
| Ypthima pandocus (7) | Instantly devoured. 
| Lepidoptera Cynitia diardi (1) ” ” 
_ Terias hecabe (4) | One devoured, rest re- 
served for future con- 
| sumption. 
Deilemera coleta (1) | Thrown out of the web. 
In these experiments one feature was plain, viz. that the 
spider exhibited its likes and dislikes in the most unmistakable 
manner, and I am positive that its appetite was by no means 
sated by the time that the experiments had come to an 
untimely end. When the butterflies, Ypthima pandocus were 
thrown into the web the spider made a rapid rush at them, 
and in a moment the victims were engulfed. The Phyto- 
phagous beetle, a reddish-yellow species of <Antipha, was 
instantly seized when it fell into the web, but the spider, after 
driving her falces into the body of her prey, then paused and 
appeared to find the copious yellow fluid which exuded from 
the body of the beetle highly distasteful ; at any rate the 
beetle was not bitten again, but was spun up in a silken 
shroud and was suspended by a single strand of silk from the 
web. The method by which this beetle was enshrouded was 
interesting to watch. The spider held it by her front pair of 
legs and caused it to revolve by the help of her mouth parts, 
