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INDEX. 



Mahadeva, 199. 



Mahadeva verrucosa, 200. 



Malaysian spiders, 64. 



Male spiders, 39, 70, 105, 128, 131. 



Mandibles, used for cleaning, 15. 



Manufacture of spider silk, 86. 



Marx, Dr. George, 54, 133, 134, 137, 151, 155, 



160, 185, 186, 188, 189, 198, 199, 210, 212, 



222, 230, 231, 244, 245, 248, 256, 257, 269, 



277. 



Marx, Mrs. Dorothea, 270. 

 Marxia, genus, described, 192. 

 Marxia grisea, described, 195. 

 Marxia moesta, described, 196. 

 Marxia nobilis, described, 194. 

 Marxia stellata, 193. 

 Maternal ingenuity, 25 ; instinct, 53. 

 Maternity, 41, 90, 94 ; community m, 38. 

 Memory, 46, 47. 

 Mending snares, 71. 

 Menge, Professor, 128, 224, 259. 

 Meta, genus, 245. 

 Meta argyra, 243. 

 Meta fusca, 246. 

 Meta Menardi, 246. 

 Mexican spiders, 243. 

 Mimicry, 30, 48, 49, 76 ; of architecture, 52 ; 



of color, 47 ; of flowers, 51 ; of site, 75. 

 Misumena vatia, 47, 50. 

 Moggridge, Mr., 30, 34, 52. 

 Money spinners, 82. 

 Moulting habits, 90, 91. 

 Moulting, methods of, summary, 107. 

 Muscles, 113, 122. 

 Muy bridge, Edward, 67. 

 Mygale, moulting, 99. 

 Mygalidse, 112; burrowing habits, 27; toilet 



habits, 17. 



Nemesia, 33. 



Nephila, genus, 250. 



Nephila clavipes, 83, 252, 255. 



Nephila concolor, 256. 



Nephila fasciculata, 253, 255. 



Nephila maculata, 254. 



Nephila plumipes, 87, 251. 



Nephila Vespucea, 252. 



\ephila Wilderi, 87, 251, 253. 



Xephila Wistariana, 252. 



Neriena longipalpis, 23. 



Nesting habit, in common, 39 ; entering nest, 



74. 



Nests of Trapdoor spider, 30, 31. 

 New York Sun, 88. 

 Niantic, Conn., 72. 



Nocturnal habits, 71, 75. 

 Nomenclature, 124, 133. 



Oliver, M., 273. 



Orbitelarise, denned, 132. 



Orbweavers, 64, 95, 102, 117. 



Orcutt, Mr. S. R., 172, 183, 198, 222. 



Ordgarius, genus, described, 197. 



Ordgarius bisaccatus, described, 198. 



Ordgarius cornigerus, described, 197. 



Orithyia Williami, 273. 



Ornithoscatoi'des decipiens, 48. 



Oscillation of web, 67. 



Oviduct, 127. 



Ovipositing, 37, 61 ; method of parasites, 52. 



Pachygnatha, genus, 267. 



Pachygnatha autumnalis, 268, 272. 



Pachygnatha brevis, 267, 272. 



Pachygnatha Curtisi, 271. 



Pachygnatha Dorothea, 270, 272. 



Pachygnatha furcillata, 271. 



Pachygnatha, species, how distinguished, 272. 



Pachygnatha tristriata, 270, 272, 267. 



Pachygnatha xanthostoma, 269, 272. 



Packard, Professor, 158. 



Palps, armature of, 15. 



Palps, male, 128. 



Panama spiders, 180. 



Paraguay spiders, 83. 



Parasite larva, 55. 



Parasites of body, 54. 



Parasites on spiders, habits summarized, 57. 



Parasitism, 52. 



Pardosa luteola, parasites on, 59. 



Patching webs, 73. 



Peckham, Professor George W., and Eliza- 

 beth G., 105, 106, 133, 141, 158, 171, 172, 

 174, 189, 194, 225, 241, 264, 277. 



Pepsis formosa, 75. 



Periodicity, of regeneration, 119; of moult- 

 ing, 100. 



Phidippus johnsonii, 106. 



Phidippus morsitans, parasites on, 59. 



Phidippus opifex (McCook), 43. 



Philadelphia, spiders of, 78. 



Phillyra mammeata, 274. 



Pholcus phalangioides, 67. 



Physiology of moulting, 109, 114. 



Pigment patches, 51. 



Pliny, on spider weather prophets, 77. 



Pococke, Mr. R. I., 135. 



Poison, 68; effects of, 69; gland, 112; insect, 

 eflects of, 101. 



Pollock, Mr., 92. 



