SPIDERS IN THEIR ANALOGIES WITH OTHER 

 ORDERS OF CREATION. 



" Gloomily retired, 



The villain Spider lives, cunning and fierce, 

 Mixture abhorred ! Amid a mangled heap 

 Of carcases in eager watch he sits, 

 O'erlooking all his waving snares around." 



WE have had occasion to notice already a variety of correspon- 

 dencies observable betweeen insects and the higher, or larger, 

 orders of animated creation. In the gentle, as well as preda- 

 cious tribes, this resemblance is traceable ; but with reference 

 especially to habits of destructiveness, the Spider alone, in its 



