CLASSIFICATION OF SPIDERS. HUNTING SPIDERS. 223 



.*;, hiding iu holes and fissures. 



I. VENANTES, incessantly TUBICOLJE, inclosing themselves in silken tubes. 

 running or leaping about | CELLULICOLJE, sheltering themselves in small 

 the vicinity of their abode, J cells. 



to chase and catch their I CUKSORES, running swiftly to catch their prey. 

 prey. | SALTATORES, leaping and springing with agi- 



(^ lity to seize their prey. 



II. VAGANTES, wandering r 



abroad, and incessantly i LATERIGRAD^E, walking and running sideways 

 looking out for prey. No^ or backwards; occasionally throwing out 

 fixed residence except at threads to entrap their prey. 

 the period of oviposition. L 



III. ERRANTES, prowling ^NITIDELJE, going abroad, but making a web for 

 about the neighbourhood I their nests, whence issue threads to entrap 

 of their nests, or near the) their prey. 



threads which they throw ] FILITEL^E, going abroad, but spreading long 

 out to catch their prey. threads of silk about the places where they 



(^ prowl, in order to entrap their prey. 



fTAPiTELTE, spinning great webs of a close tex- 

 ture, and dwelling therein to catch their prey. 



IV SEDENTES SDinnine ORBITEL.E, spreading abroad webs of a regular 

 large webs to entrap their and P e . n te ? tu > either circular or spiral and 

 pre g y, lying in wait ?n the \ ThT^ m *" ""^ " ^ ^ ^ ^ 

 middle or at the side. catch their P 1 ^ , . 



ItETiTELJE, spinning webs of an open meshwork, 



and of an irregular form, and remaining in the 

 L middle or on one eide to seize their prey. 



V. NAT ANTES, swimming in r 



water, and there spreading ! AQUITEL^E, spreading filaments in the water to 

 their filaments to entrap j entrap their prey. 

 their prey. 



825. The first family, that of the VENANTES, or Hunting - 

 Spiders, may be naturally divided into two groups ; the first 

 being more sedentary, and the second more active. At the 

 head of the first group stands the tribe of LATEBRICOL^E, which 

 consists of the genus Mygale (Fig. 542) and its allies ; these are 

 the largest of the whole family, some of them occupying, in a 

 state of repose, a circular space of six or seven inches in diameter. 

 They form their nests in the slits of trees, beneath the bark, in 

 the cavities of stones and rocks, or on the surface of the leaves 

 of various trees. Some of them burrow into the ground, as has 

 already been stated ( 821, and ANISI. PHYSIOL. 700). The 

 Mygale spins a sort of cocoon around its eggs, enclosing a hundred 

 or more ; they are hatched within it, and the young undergo their 

 first changes before quitting it. The various species of this group 

 nre inhabitants of tropical and the warmer temperate climates ; 



