66 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., ’14 
Standards of the number of eggs laid by Spiders 
Being Averages Obtained by Actual Count of the Combined Eggs 
of Twenty (20) Depositions or Masses. 
By A. A. Grrautt, Nelson (Cairns), North Queensland, 
Australia. 
3. ULOBoROUS GENICULATUS Oliv. 
No. | Date counted—1g912 | pp i Doce eee aes Max. Min. | Range 
I May 1 | 140. 140. | 140. | 140. 
71 | IOL. DAT. |! *S120 91) 
2 yall 108. 349- | 113. | 
4 70. |} 419. | 105. | 
pe 68. 488. | 98. 
6 78 566. | 94. 
7 107. i) S67a004 96. 
8 127: 800. | I00. 
9 97. 897. 100. 
= 73: 979. 97- 
rr) 134. I104. | Ioo. 
I2 | Tee I215. Io. 
37) May 5 94. 1309. | Iol. 
14 | 108. Wie IoI. 
15 | 89. 1506. Ioo. 
16 | ais G7 99. 
17 60. T6270 i 96. 60. | 80 
Lo! yl May 6 87. 1724. "| 96. 
19 | 82. 1806. | 95. 
20 | Ig. 1925. | 96. 
20 | |) “Mgage (1), 96: 140. 60.| 80 
The above eggs were obtained from a number of nests in a 
private residence used as a field laboratory on the edge of the 
little hamlet of Nelson (Cairns District), North Queensland, 
Australia, the first week in May, 1912. The species was kindly 
identified for me by Mr. W. J. Rainbow, of the Australian 
Museum, Sydney. Three egg bags to the nest seem to be the 
average per female, but the following observations show that 
as many as six may be deposited. A female kept under obser- 
vation from April 30, 1912 (subpended in an isolated web 
across part of the frame of a rude ladder on the back veranda) 
made a fresh cast a day or two previously and another on 
May 10, so that she became mature not until the night of 
* For the first two of this series, see ENT. News, XXII, pp. 461; XXIV, p. 2136 
