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mosquitoes ; and these they go in quest of, slyly approaching 

 and pouncing on their victim and seizing it with their mandi- 

 bles, which are furnished at their ends with a pair of nippers, 

 which enable them to retain their prey. {See Fig. 115, m.) 



They build no net to entrap their prey, and are weak and 

 helpless compared with their higher relatives, the true spiders. 

 They are dependent then for food upon such insects as they 

 can overcome, and these they devour, differing in this respect 

 from the rapacious spiders which suck the fluid contents of 

 their prey, rejecting the rest. Certain species are known to 



Fig, 116.— Totjng Daddt-Long-Leob, EWLAKQim : y. showing Natural Size ; B, Under Side 

 of Body BtUl more enlarged; m, Mandible of Left Side; p, Palpus of Eight Side; P, 

 Palpus, greatly enlarged; P C, End of Palpus, showing Notched Claw; £,"End of Leg, 

 showing Claw; ^, Eye-Prominence, with the Two Eyes. (The three last-mentioned Fig- 

 ures are greatly magnified.) 



