CTENIZA. 



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warmtli. If the jar was turned around she lost no 

 time in moving the cocoon to the warmer side. 



Two months after the eggs were laid the young 

 spiders made their appearance, and immediately 

 perched upon their mother, many on her back, some 

 on her head, and even on her legs. She carried them 

 about with her and fed them, and until they were 

 older they never left their mother for a moment. 



mim- 



CTENIZA. 



HOW AND WHERE THEY CONCEAL THEMSELVES. 



Visitors to Arizona, 

 New Mexico, or Cali- 

 fornia, sitting medita- 

 tively, without noise 

 or movement, beneath 

 some tree or elsewhere, 

 are sometimes aston- 

 ished beyond measure 

 to see small circular 

 doors, like those that 

 cover manholes in the 

 streets of New York 

 suddenly lift up in the 

 soil about them, and 

 what might be taken 



for the hairy heads of outlandish little pygmies peep 

 out. 





Burrow of the cteniza. 



