12 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PART VI. PROVISION FOR NURTURE AND DEFENSE. 



CHAPTER XV. 

 PROCURING FOOD AND FEEDING. 



PAGES 



Food taking Tools Handling the Snare Accuracy of Perception Treatment of Insects- 

 Swathing the Prey The Banquet Room Deporting Swathed Insects Trussing Cap- 

 tives Acrosoma Trapping Flies -Order and Subordination of Instincts Flies Ban- 

 queting with a Spider Location Controls Food Prolonged Abstinence Comparative 

 Feeding Habits How the Tarantula Feeds Need of Water Drinking Habits 

 Does the Spider Eat Its Web ? Wear and Tear of Snares Mending the Web En- 

 tangling Insects The Spider as a Philanthropist Man as an Ingrate 247-267 



CHAPTER XVI. 

 EFFECTS AND USES OF POISON. " 



The Fangs and Poison Bag Blackwall's Experiments Effect of Epeira's Bite The 

 Inoculation Test General Harmlessness of Spiders The Other Side The Venomous 

 Spider of New Zealand Latrodectus mactans The Popular "Black Spider" In- 

 definite Testimony Phidippus morsitans Effect of Spider Venom on Insects 

 Poison as a Reserve Weapon Popular Notions Medical Imaginings Queer Reme- 

 dies-Useless Fears . 268-283 



PART VII. NESTING HABITS, PROTECTIVE ARCHITECTURE, 

 AND DEVELOPMENT. 



CHAPTER XVII. 

 NESTING HABITS AND PROTECTIVE ARCHITECTURE OF ORBWEAVERS. 



Varieties of Spinningwork The Nests of Epeira insularis Leaf rolled Habitations 

 Woven Tents Shelter Tents Spider Seamstresses Variations in Individual Habit 

 Special Adaptations The Shamrock Spider's Nest Epeira domiciliorum and tria- 

 ranea The Angulata Group How the Spider Makes a Nest Sewing Leaves To- 

 getherSpider Upholstery Nest of the Young The Nest of Epeira thaddeus The 

 Domed Tent of Triaranea Labyrinthea's Nest The Leafy Canopy of Labyrinthea 

 Origin of the Nest making Habit Intelligent Selection Design Showed in Sewing 

 Nesting Industry Protective Various Forms of Tents Summarized 284-312 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

 NEST MAKING : ITS ORIGIN AND USE : DEVELOPMENT IN VARIOUS TRIBES. 



Comparative Studies Nests of Tubeweavere Saltigrades Lineweavers Theridium ripar- 

 ium, the Prince of Spider Architects Mode of Building -Use of Artificial Material 

 Nesting Sn;ires of Linyphia A Tent Among the Morning Glories Territelarian 

 Tubes Atypus and Cyrtauchenius Nesting Habit of Citigrades Of Laterigrades 

 One Common and Typical Form of Nest The Modes of Making Nests Method of 

 Atypus-Of the Mygalidse Of the Water Spider Of Speckled Agalena Unity of 

 Method in All Tribes Nest Parasitism Squatter Sovereignty Comparison with 

 other Orders Tube making Larvae Nests of the Caddis Fly Larva-Leaf thutrh<-<l 

 N>-t of the Bag Worm Nest of a Theridioid Spider The Leaf roller Tortricid 

 Moth Shamrock Spider's Nest in the Ferns The Shell of Difflugi a Catholic Re- 

 semblance in External Architecture Creation's Harmony 313-335 



