Tarantulas. 149 



are particularly noticeable as belonging to un- 

 common, and, so far as the Society's collection is 

 concerned, new species. 



Pepys mentions the musical cure for the bite of 

 the tarantula. " One Mr. Templer, a great tra- 

 veller and an ingenious man, and a person of 

 honour he seems to be," with whom he dined at 

 my Lord Crewe's, after telling him a wonderful 

 story of a " serpent " and a lark, the scene of 

 which was laid in the "waste places of Lanca- 

 shire," speaking of the tarantula, informed him 

 that " all the harvest long (about which times they 

 are most busy) there are fiddlers go up and down 

 the fields everywhere, in expectation of being hired 

 by those that are stung." 



