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high from top to bottom like a veil of gauze and spread 

 along the ground for some distance. Whether this was 

 the work of a single spider or of several I am unable to 

 say. The web was most likely spun by a species of 

 Galeodes. Another spider often met with, fastens small 

 bits of wood and dirt in its web in such a way, that 

 when quietly resting amongst them it is difficult to deteft 

 its presence. I have also seen a spider that had the 

 singular habit of tucking in his web every evening and 

 retreating into a crevice. In the morning he would 

 come out again and set his snare. He was a dapper 

 looking creature, but had it not been for his eccentric 

 behaviour I should never have noticed him. 



The scorpions found here make no habitation of any 

 sort, simply hiding away under leaves, stones, &c. In 

 other parts of the world, however, they are stated to form 

 burrows, the entrances to which are said to be like the 

 holes cut in the seats of wooden stools for the purpose of 

 introducing the hand when they are lifted. I have taken 

 a scorpion out of a hole in the ground which looked as if 

 it had purposely formed it, but in this instance the hole 

 was cylindrical and the aperture circular. 



The curious little Arachnids known as book scorpions 

 or chelifers are represented here by three species, one of 

 which lives in the forest between the spurs of mora trees, 

 and is coloured exa6tly like the bark. He is a very large 

 chelifer measuring about a quarter of an inch in length. 

 The other is very handsomely coloured, having a bright 

 steel blue body and scarlet palpi. This species is para- 

 sitic on the large Coleoptera^ especially affe6ting the 

 Harlequin beetle Acrocinus longuimanus^ hiding under 

 the elytra or wing cases. The third is a very tiny cre«^- 



