The Spider. 



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every direction. It hangs upside down in its web. The 

 spider tied up a fly in the web and held it there a long 

 time, then it took o£E the threads and let the fly fall on 

 the bottom of the box. The spider has four pairs of 

 long legs. It has a big head and a round body with 

 spots on it. 



This laat obserTatlon will soon be corrected from the alcoholic 

 speoimena. These moat now be held with the back uppermost 

 and the head poiDting away from the pnpil. 



Outline of new discoveries : 



The spider coald be cut in halves by cutting length- 

 wise from front to back. The spider's body has two 

 parts. Since the front part bears the legs, it must be the 



Fig 2. 



head-thorax, and the other part is the abdomen. The 

 abdomen is very soft and looks as if it might break off 

 from the head-thorax. The skeleton is a horny crust 

 covering the outside of the body. There is a dark band 

 down each side of the head-thorax, and some dark stripes 

 and spots on the abdomen. There is a little hollow near 

 the hind part of the head-thorax. 



