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in front, whilst two more eyes, one on each side of the top of 

 the head, keep a look-out upwards. 



The female wolf spider (Lycosa), in the breeding season, 

 always carries with her a little, light -brown or grey, 

 spheroidal bag of eggs, which remains attached to her abdomen 

 until the young ones hatch out, when they climb on to 

 their mother's back and are carried about for a time, gradually 

 dropping off and beginning life for themselves. During the 

 winter they lie hidden under stones or in some crack or 

 crevice. 



Lycosa saccata is a very common wolf spider ; it has a 

 yellow-brown body with darker markings, and a pale-brown 

 egg- sac. 



Lycosa picta is found on the sandhills by the sea-coast or 

 on sandy commons inland ; it is of a reddish-brown colour 

 with deeper stripes. It makes little burrows in the ground. 



Lycosa pirata (the Raft Spider) is a wolf spider that is 



often found on the surface of the water in June. 



The Jumc- '^^^ Jumping Spiders also form no snare, but 



ing Spiders wander about, stalking their prey, or jumping 



(Attidae or suddenly on to it as it approaches their hiding- 



a tioi ae). pjg^(.g_ They usually leave a silk thread behind 



them, which attaches them to the spot whence they sprang — 



a custom which must frequently 



save them from a fall, when hunting, 



as they so often do, on walls and 



fences. 



These spiders do not carry their 

 eggs with them, but deposit two 

 or three little white cocoons in silken 

 nests in some crack or corner. Fig. 128.— The Zebra Spider 



The commonest British jumping {Salticus scenicus). 



spider is Salticm scenicus (Fig. 128), ^' ^""seeIl7onfthfffoAtf'' ''"' 

 a small form with a black body, with 



white " zebra " markings both on it and on the rather short 

 hairy legs. The female is about ^ of an inch long, the male 

 rather smaller. The arrangement of the eyes diflFers from 

 that in the wolf spider ; four are large and look forwards, 

 the other four are placed on the top of the head in two rows 

 and look upwards, the central two being very small. 



The ways of these spiders at the courting time are well 



