ARTHROPOD A 



8l 



John T. Lloyd informs me that he has collected scores of specimens of 

 this species with his hands in Samoa, where it is abundant, and has 

 never been bitten by it. 



A c 



FIG. 60. A, black widow spider, Latrodectus mactans, female. X3- B> ventral 

 view of same; C, body of male. X3- (From Comstock, The Spider Book.) 



"Although we have in the North no spider that is to be feared, it 

 is quite possible that in the South it is different. I confess that I should 

 not like to be bitten by one of the larger Tarantulas of that region, 

 although I know of no well-authenticated case of a person being bitten 

 by one. 



