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INDEX. 



Tetragnatha lacerta, 266. 



Tetragnatha obtusa, 259. 



Tetragnatha pallida, 265. 



Tetragnatha versicolor, 259. 



Tetragnatha violacea, 260. 



Theridioids, 94. 



Tlieridioids social, 39. 



Theridioid spiders, 54. 



Theridiosoma, genus, 257. 



Theridiosoma gemmosum, 257. 



Theridiosoma radiosum, 257. 



Theridium serpentinum, cocoons, 38. 



Theridium spirale, parasites on, 58. 



Theridium tepidariorum, 81. 



Thirst, mode of quenching, 22. 



Thomisoids, 48, 103. 



Thompson, Miss Estelle, 29, 74, 76. 



Thorell, Professor T., 9, 128, 129, 133, 134, 

 184, 216, 222, 259, 260. 



Tiger spiders, 45, 70; toilet manners, 20. 



Timber, preferences of spiders for, 83. 



Titus, Mr. Walter, 74, 76. 



Toilet habits, 15 ; implements, 15, 16. 



Townsend, Mr. C. H., 9, 152, 156, 211, 212, 

 222, 227, 253, 254. 



Transforming, insects, dangers, 23. 



Trapdoormaking Lycosid, 31. 



Trapdoor spiders, building habits, 52 ; bur- 

 rowing habits, 29, 74. 



Treat, Mrs. Mary, 20, 25, 26, 45, 70, 92, 102, 

 186. 



Treviranus, 128. 



Trochosa, 90, 100, 107, 112, 118. 



Trochosa singoriensis, 31, 105. 



Tubeweavers, 61. 



Tubular nest, 64. 



Tunnelweavers, habits and architecture of, 

 31, 33. 



Turret spiders, 20, 26, 44, 92. 



Uloborus, habits, 141; genus, described, 272. 



Uloborus Americanus, 274. 



Uloborus borbonicus, 273. 



Uloborus geniculatus, 273. 



Uloborus Latreillei, 273. 



Uloborus plumipes, 274. 



Uloborus republicanus, males, 41. 



Uloborus villosus, 274. 

 Uloborus zosis, 273. 



Venezuela spiders, 36. 

 Verrucosa, genus, described, 199 

 Verrucosa arenata, described, 200. 

 Verrucosa unistriata, described, 201. 

 Vinson, M., 273. 

 Vital endurance, 23. 

 Volitional color changes, 51. 



Wagner, Mr. Waldemar, 9, 31, 33, 90, 94, 95, 



100, 103, 105, 109, 114, 117, 121, 130, 203. 

 Wagneria, genus, described, 203. 

 Wagneria tauricornis, 204. 

 Walckenaer, Baron, 133, 173, 178, 194, 252, 



253, 254, 258, 266, 275. 

 Wallace, A. R., 48. 

 Walsingham, Lord, 43. 

 Wasp pursuing spider, 63. 

 Wasps, memory of, 47. 

 Water habits, 23. 

 Weather prognostications, 77. 

 Weather, relation to spinning-work, 78. 

 Web, eaten, 20; mode of cleansing viscid 



beads, 20. 



Webster, Mr. F. M., 47, 49, 50. 

 Welsh, Mr. Francis R., 63, 66, 69, 117. 

 West India spiders, 274. 

 Wilder, Professor B., 68, 86, 251, 276. 

 Wistar, General Isaac J., 252. 

 Wittfeld, Miss Anna, 168. 

 Wixia, genus, described, 205. 

 Wixia eetypa, 205. 

 Wood, Rev. J. G., 78. 

 Workman, Messrs. Thomas and M. E., 9, 64, 



65. 



Young spiders, 30, 40, 76, 91, 94, 101, 103; 

 care of, 25; communities of, 35; drinking 

 habits, 22 ; moulting habits, 90. 



Zilla, habits of young, 22 ; communities of, 

 42; weather habits, 79; genus, described, 

 236; x-notata. 100, 237. 



Zilla atrica, 106, 238. 



Zilla montana, 239. 



