10 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PAGES 



Great Ant Thrush Raiding the Driver Ants Are Wasps Mimicked? Ants eat 

 Spiders Form Mimicry of Environment Tetragnatha extensa Mimicking Knots 

 and Buds Color Mimicry Ambush in Flowers Misumena vatia Mimicking Wild 

 Flowers English Mimics Mimicking Bark and the Ground Natural Selection and 

 Mimicry Metallic Colors Cocoon Mimicry Cyclosa caudata and her Cocoon 

 Young Mimics A Savage's Decoration Protective Resemblance 352-377 



CHAPTER XIII. 

 ENEMIES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON HABIT. 



Perils of Spiders Season Changes Animal Destroyers Rats eat Spiders Sheep also 

 Cannibalism Goethe on Robber Wasps The Mud Dauber's Nest The Blue Wasp 

 hawking for Spiders A Waspling Larva at work Wasp Poison The Cicada 

 Wasp Pipes of Pan The Tarantula Killer Special Selection Characteristics of 

 Captives Social Wasps Nest Parasitism The Pirate Spider A Spider Feud 

 Spider Duels Body Parasites Parasites on Eggs Saltigrade Guests Parasitized 

 Cocoons Mold, Flies, and Birds Foolishly Hostile Man Arachne as a Forest 

 Keeper Arachne a Philanthropist Influence of Enemies on Industry Moulting 

 Tents Climate Covers Self Protective Industry The Tiger Spider and her 

 Bower Elis 4-notata The Burial of Lycosa Lycosa tarentula Trapdoor Spi- 

 ders Strange Towers and their Builders Secret Chambers in the Earth A new 

 Use of the Abdomen Shaping the Cocoon 378-418 



CHAPTER XIV. 

 DEATH AND ITS DISGUISES, HIBERNATION AND DEATH FEIGNING. 



The Decline of Argiope Fashions of Death First Stages of Mortality Sexta's Death 

 Record Death after Cocooning Limit of Life Lubbock's old Ant Queen The 

 oldest Spider Tarantula's Age Winter Habits Winter Dens Winter Tents 

 Hunting on the Snow Hibernation Sudden Resuscitation Death Feigning Not 

 Fear Paralysis, but 'Possuming The Peckhams' Studies Wonderful Shamming 

 A Spider Stoic Darwin's View Origin of Death Feigning Voluntary Hypnotism 

 among Men Purpose of the Habit Fabre's Studies 419-445 



PART VI. FOSSIL SPIDERS. 



CHAPTER XV. 

 ANCESTRAL SPIDERS AND THEIR HABITS. 



Sites of American Fossils Scudder's Studies Lake Florissant Cause of Entombment 

 Manner of Entombment Volcanic Showers Oeningen Spiders Fossil Nephila 

 Climatic Conditions European Fossil Spiders Fossil and Existing Fauna The 

 Oldest known Spider Eoatypus woodwardii Fossil Tunnelweavers Geological 

 Position of American Fossil Spiders Fossil Spinningwork Fossil Cocoons The- 

 ridiosoma Cocoon Unmodified Industry The Amber Tree Sources of Amber 

 Amber Land Amber Bay Trees running Amber Deep Sea Storehouses Break- 

 ing up the Storehouses Climate of Amber Land Insect Food of Amber Spiders 

 Spiders of the Amber Archea paradoxa Embalming Amber Insects A Romance 

 of Amber Land . . 446-469 



