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Sometimes she manages to hold two in her mandibles 

 at the same time. 



All the young have left her, and now she sets her 

 house in order. She comes to the top with a bundle 

 of the little ragged dresses bound together with web, 

 ana snoots them across the jar. Bundles of little sticks 

 and loose earth follow in rapid succession. She works 

 with energetic perseverance for an hour or more, and 

 then stops and assumes her favorite position — sitting 

 across the top of her tower — and proceeds to make her 

 toilet. .First one leg and then another is passed be- 

 tween the palpi several times, and all the while her 

 mandibles are at work as if chewing, and moisture 

 oozes up between them so that it is plainly visible. 



Many other members of this large family (Lycosidm) 

 have very interesting habits, and are well worth observ- 

 ing. One of the largest species found at the North is 

 Lyoosa carolmensis (Hentz). 



According to Dr. McCook this species has a wide 

 range, being found all along the Atlantic seaboard and 

 'west as far as Ohio. 



Fine specimens of this large spider were expressed 

 to me from New Hampshire, and are now hibernating 

 among a host of their relatives in my arachnidan men- 

 agerie. My menagerie is enclosed with a dense circular 

 hedge of arbor-vitae, fifteen feet in height and a hun- 

 dred and fifty feet in circumference. In the centre is 

 a maple -tree with drooping branches. Ornamental 

 plants are scattered about, and two bird baths are pret- 

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