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bles), with a small opening at the top, which I can close 

 at pleasure. These I set over each burrow to keep my 

 pets from the ravages of their relentless enemy, the 

 digger-wasp. In this way I hope to be able to learn 

 much more of the habits of other members of this 

 curious and interesting family. 



Most of these spiders readily adapt themselves to 

 their new surroundings. I sometimes transplant the 

 nest entire without disturbing the occupant ; but when 

 they are to be transported long distances this is not 

 practicable. I have found the most satisfactory way 

 to send them on a journey is to confine each in a glass 

 bottle. The bottle should be about the diameter of 

 the burrow in which the spider lived. 



The great Lycosa from New Hampshire was sent in 

 this way, and then packed securely in a wooden box 

 with many other specimens. 



As soon as they arrived I put the largest female Ly- 

 cosa in a glass candy jar, hoping I could make a house- 

 pet of her. But she had come from a grassy meadow, 

 where her burrow was fourteen inches deep, and around 

 the top of which she had woven grass and weeds to the 

 height of four inches, and could she be content with a 

 little six-by-twelve jar, with only about six inches of 

 earth ? She seemed to scorn the arrangement. I kept 

 her confined several days. She was not at all afraid, and 

 would drink and take flies, but she would not build, and 

 even turned from the top of her own domicile, which 

 was sent with her, and made so firmly that it was not 



