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nematode, by which it was shown that the larger por- 
Nall its life is passed within the body of some,nsect in a 
if manner to the “Guinea worm” and other round worms 
man and the lower vertebrates. 
spider, and especially the “black spider,” was con- 
as a deadly poisonous creature. The only exception 
rule that I can recollect was the “daddy long legs” 
irvest man, which no one seemed to fear, and which the 
used to dismember (young savages that we were) to 
_ see the legs kick after they were severed. However, there is 
if Ra denying the fact that some few species of spiders are 
of inflicting dangerous bites. This was brought out 
a | Life some years ago when an exhaustive dis- 
as n of the subject, almost world wide in its scope, was 
a on. It was shown beyond cavil that spiders of the 
a. Lathrodectes had caused the death of human beings in 
a number of instances. Especially in New Zealand, where the 
Katipo, a member of this group, is greatly feared and justly 
$0, its bite is known to have caused serious results in 
kd of cases. 
Tal 4 species occurring on the Atlantic sea board as far 
_ north as North Carolina, which is reported in a number of ap- 
well authenticated cases, as having produced in- 
tense suffering and even death, by its bite. We find a good 
___— account of this in /nsect Life, Vol. 1, No. 7, Page 204, where 
an illustration of the species is supplied. Notwithstanding 
_ the fact that the late Dr. Marx of Washington, secured en- 
 tirely negative results from his experiments with the poison 
___ of this creature when applied to the bodies of the smaller 
mam it behooves us to observe the utmost circumspec- 
_ tion in handling black spiders having red and yellow spots on 
their abdomens. The members of the genus Lathrodectes are 
$0 marked and regarded with dread by both savage and civil- 
ized man alike throughout the world, wherever they occur. 
The same story is told by all. “It bites and its bite is pain- 
_ ful and dangerous.” 
Going on up the scale of invertebrate life, the next form that 
