ii6 Books about Spielers. 



hatching. H. Ladwig, in ''Zeiischtjh. for Wissenstiiaft- 

 liche Zoologie," 1876, gives an accoimt oi die segpieatsr 

 tioB in eggs of Philodromns. 



Habits. — Walckenaer's " Hisfoire NatmeUe des Ap- 

 teres" goes over the whole sabjecf. BlackwaD, in 

 " Researches in Zoology" 1834, describes the web- 

 making of Epeiia, and the fljing habits o£ sfrideis. 

 Blackwall also writes on habits in "The Spiders of 

 Great Briton and Ireland," pnblished by the Ray 

 Society, 1864, and in varioos papers in "Transactions 

 ot the linnsan Society," 1833 to 1841. Meuge's 

 Lebensweise der Arachniden in "Schriften der Natnr- 

 forchenden Gesellschaft in Danzig" 1843, goes over 

 the whole subject, and is particolarlj useful on the sex- 

 nal habits. The same author continues the subject in 

 " Preussische Spinnen," published by the same sodety, 

 beginning in 1866, and not yet finished. The habits of 

 the water-^ider are described by Mr. Bell in "Jtmmal 

 of the Ijnnsan Society," 1857. The tiap-door spiders 

 and their habits are described by J. T. Moggridge in 

 " Harvesting Ants and Trap-door Spiders," published by 

 L. Reeve & Co., London, 1873, and Supplement. 1874. 

 Prot B. G. Wilder has published several papers on the 

 habits of American spiders, the most useful of which 

 are the following : on NephOa plumipes from South Car- 

 olina, "Proceedings of the Boston Socie^ of Natural 

 History," 1865: Practical Use of Spider's Silk in "The 

 Galaxy," July, 1869 : Habits of Epeira riparia. Moulting 

 of Nephila plumipes. and Nests of Epeira, Nephila, and 

 Hyptiotes, in " Proceedings of American Association for 

 Advancement of Science," 1873: the Trian^e Spider in 

 "Popular Science Monthly," 1875. 



