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INDEX. 



Coleoptera, 46(5 ; long life, 429. 



Colonies of Medicinal spider, 237, 238; on 

 adult webs, 234, 235; over water, 233; of 

 South American Epeiras, 231 ; of Epeira 

 triaranea, 231. 



Color and color sense, Chapter XI. 



Color, causes that modify, 341 ; consciousness 

 of, 333, 341 ; development, 60 ; hairs, 351 ; 

 mimicry, 367 ; normal, 325 ; of Cave spi- 

 ders, 335: patterns, 348; utility of, 337; 

 sense of, 346 ; structural causes of, 349 ; ex- 

 hibited by males in wooing, 52 ; preference 

 for, 343 ; relation to cocoons, 347. 



Colorado, Gray's Peak, 128. 



Colors and sex, 328. 



Combativeness in females, 33 ; in males, 32, 33. 



Communication by sound, 314. 



Communities of spiders, 230. 



Conflicts of males, 30. 



Conifers of the Tertiary, 464. 



Consciousness of color, 333, 342. 



Copal, 463. 



Cope, Prof. Edward, 450, 458. 



Copulation, 73. 



Coreopsis, 367. 



Cornwallis, Mr. E. C., 362. 



Courtship, 333, 335; attitude in, 62; first stages 

 of, 20. 



Cowan, Edward, 307. 



Crab, male, dances of, 55. 



Cresson, Ezra T., 131, 396. 



Cretaceous formations, 463. 



Cricket, 314, 315. 



Crum Creek, 368. 



Crustaceans, 342 ; sound making, 315. 



Cteniza ariana, 250. 



Cteniza californica, 169, 414, 415 ; eggs of, 182, 

 183. 



Cteniza fodiens, 249. 



Ctenus, 148 ; young of, 226, 227. 



Cutting ante, 357, 



Cuvier, Baron, 415. 



Cyclocosmia truncata, 415, 416, 417. 



Cyclosa bifurca, 189, 372, 376. 



Cyclosa caudata, 102, 104, 169, 191, 204, 232, 

 301, 372, 373, 376. 



Cyclosa conica, 374. 



Cynips, 142; parasitic on spiders, 246, 247. 



Cyrtarachne, cocoons of, 95, 98, 97. 



Cyrtarachne cornigera, 98, 99. 



Cyrtophora bifurca, 95. 



Dahl, Herr, 309, 312. 

 Dances, love, of males, 50. 



Danger, influence of, 341 ; influences indus- 

 try, 407 ; insects unconscious of, 340. 



Daphnia pulex, 342. 



Darwin, Charles, 16, 30, 56, 230, 232, 273, 315, 

 319,358,359,441,442. 



Dawson, Dr. G. M., 459. 



Death, 378 ; feigning, 255, 438, 442 ; of spiders, 

 Chapter XIV., 419. 



De Geer, Baron, 16, 27, 29, 50, 133, 150. 



De Lignac, 45. 



Dendryphantes capitatus, 31, 52. 



Dendryphantes elegans, 33. 



Dens, spider, 433. 



Dermestidse, 87, 396. 



Development, effects of, 208. 



Diadem spider, 22 ; see Epeira diademata. 



Digger wasp, 383, 406. 



Diptera, 340. 



Dispersion of young, 220. 



Dissimulation of insects, 359. 



Distribution of species, 97, 272, 274 ; vertical, 

 of Orbweavers, 178. 



Diurnal eyes, 290. 



Dodge, Capt. George H., 273. 



Dolichoscaptus inops, 410, 411. 



Dolichoscaptus latastei, 410. 



Dolichoscaptus vittatus, 417. 



Dolomedes albinius, 193. 



Dolomedes lanceolatus, 194. 



Dolomedes mirabilis, 27, 146, 147, 189. 



Dolomedes scriptus, 195. 



Dolomedes sexpunctatus, 145, 146. 



Dolomedes tenebrosus, 192, 201, 299, 301. 



Dolomedes, young of, 240, 241. 



Domesticity of spiders, 27, 28, 39, 63. 



Domicile spider, 302. 



Doors of Lycosids, 405. 



Dragon flies, 466. 



Drassids, cocoon and nest of, 132 ; cocoons of, 

 125, 210; of England, 133 ; ovipositing, 181. 



Drassus ater, 133, 194. 



Drassus lapidicolens, 133, 194. 



Drassus nitens, 133. 



Drassus sylvestris, 133. 



Dufour, M., 407. 



Dwight, Dr. Sereno E., 280. 



Dyctina, nests and cocoons of, 136, 137. 



Dying, manner of, 419. 



Dysdera bicolor, 134, 135, 189. 



Dysdera hombergii, 189. 



Eating, 428. 



Edgerton, Lord, of Tatton Hall, 290. 

 Edwards, Dr. Jonathan, as a naturalist, 280, 

 281. 



