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or which they excavate, lining their parietes with silk, and enlarging 
them in proportion to their growth. Some establish their domicil 
in chinks and cavities in walls, where they form a silken tube, 
covered externally with particles of earth or sand. In these retreats 
they change their tegument, and, as it appears, after closing the 
opening, pass the winter. There also the females lay their eggs. 
When they go abroad they carry their cocoon with them, attached to 
the anus by threads. On issuing from the egg the young ones cling 
to the body of the mother, and remain there until they are able to 
provide for themselves. 
The Lycosae are extremely voracious, and courageously defend 
thier dwelling. 
A species of this genus, the Tarentula, so called from Taren- 
tum, a city of Italy, in the environs of Avhich it is common, is 
highly celebrated. The poisonous nature of its bite is thought 
to produce the most serious consequences, being frequently fol- 
lowed by death or Tarentism, results which can only be avoided 
by the aid of music and dancing. Well-informed persons, how- 
ever, think it more necessary in these cases to combat the terrors 
of the imagination than to apply an antidote to the poison ; medi- 
cine at all events presents other means of cure. 
Several curious observations on the Lycosa tarentula of the 
south of France have been published by M. Chabrier, Acad, de 
Lille, fascic. IV. 
This genus is very rich in species, which have not as yet, however, 
been well characterized. 
Lyc. tarentula; Aranea tarentula, L., Fab.; Albin, Aran., 
tab. xxxix ; Senguerd. de Tarent. An inch long ; under part 
of the abdomen red, crossed in the middle by a black band. 
The Tarentula of the south of France — Lycose narbonnaise, 
Walck., Faun. Fran9., Aran., I, 1 — 4, is not quite so large ; the 
under part of its abdomen is very black, and edged all round 
with red. 
A similar species is found in the environs of Paris, the Lycose 
ouvriere, or L. fabrilis, Clei’ck, Aran. Suec., pi. 4, tab. ii ; Walck., 
Faun. Fran^., Aran. II, 5. 
Lyc. saccata ; Aranea saccata, L. ; Araneus amentatus, 
Clerck, IV, tab. viii ; Lister, tit. 25, f. 25. Small; blackish; 
Carina of the thorax, obscure reddish, with a cinereous line ; a 
little bundle of grey hairs at the superior base of the abdomen ; 
legs of a livid red, varied with blackish spots ; the cocoon flat 
and greenish — very common about Paris*. 
We will terminate this section Avith the subgenus 
Myrmecia, Lat., 
Which seems to lead to the following one, and whose characters we 
have detailed in the Ann. des Sc. Nat., Ill, p. 27- ^Phe eyes lorm a 
* For the other species see the Tabl. and Hist, des Aran, of Walckenaer, and tlie 
Faune Fran^aisc, Aran. Id. See also the second edition of the Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. 
Nat., article Lycose. 
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