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HOMES WITHOUT HANDS. 



Pensile Spider's Nest. 



CHAPTER XXX. 



BRANCH-BUILDERS. 



SPIDERS AND INSECTS. 



Remarkable Spider Nests in the British Museum. — Seed-nests and Leaf-nests. — 

 Nests of the Tufted Spider. — Form and Coloring of the Spider. — Its curious 

 Limbs. — Nests illustrative of the Hexagonal Principle. — Nest of the Icaria. — 

 The Equal Pressure and Excavation Theories. — Nest of Mischocyttarus and its 

 remarkable Form. — Nest of the Raphigaster. — Summary of the Argument. — 

 The Processionary Moth. — Reasons for its Name. — How the Larva? march. — 

 Damage done by them to Trees. — A natural Remedy. — The Calosoma and its 

 Habits. — The Gipsy Moth. — Its Ravages upon Trees and Mode of destroying it. 

 — The Social Principle among Caterpillars. — Mr. Rennie's Experiments. — The 

 Lackey Moth. — Supposed derivations of its popular Name. — The Eggs, Larvas, 

 and perfect Insects. — Habits of the Moth. — The Brown-tailed Moth.-— Locality 

 where it is found. — Its Ravages abroad. — Nests of the Icaria as they appear in 

 Branches. — The Apoica : its remarkable Nests. — Moth Nests from Monte Video. 



We have already seen several nests built by Spiders, some of 

 which are made in the earth, others are strictly pensile, and 

 others may fairly come into the present group. The specimens 

 from which the drawings were made are in the collection of the 

 British Museum, some in the upper and others in the lower 



