418 A. EF. Verrill— The Bermuda Islands. 830 
their Webb into the Air, where the Wind carries it from Tree to 
Tree. This Webb, when finisht, will snare a Bird as big as a 
Thrush. Your self may prove it, for I have sent you some.” 
No representatives of the Harvest-men (Phalangide), Scorpions,* 
Whip-scorpions, nor Book-scorpions, are yet known in Bermuda. 
Large spiders of the Mygale group have not yet been reported. 
Of the 33 species of spiders now recorded from Bermudat only 
Figure 205.—Silk Spiders, both females; a, dorsal; 6, profile view; 34 nat. size. 
Phot. by A. H. V. 
two or three are peculiar to the islands, so far as positively known. 
Most of the others are either widely diffused species, or else pertain 
to the West Indies and southern United States. Some of the latter 
may have been indigenous, like the Silk-spider, but most of them 
have undoubtedly been introduced by commerce, for spiders are 
admirably adapted for transportation by vessels. 
* After the above was in type, Mr. L. Mowbray of St. George’s informed me 
that he found a scorpion under a stone, several years ago, and that it is still 
preserved in St. George’s. The species is not known. He also says that a 
vessel loaded with logwood had arrived afew years previously and that scorpions 
were found in her cargo. Whether any other specimens have been found, I do 
not know. Such a species might easily become naturalized about St. George’s, 
where there are plenty of ancient stone walls, and long escape observation. 
+ A nearly complete list of the known spiders of Bermuda is given by Nathan 
Banks, in Trans. Conn. Acad., xi, p. 267, 1901. The present list is based on the 
latter. 
