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HOMES WITHOUT HAKDS. 



Pensile Spider's Npst. 



CHAPTER XXX. 

 BEANCH-BUILDEKS. 



SPIDERS AND IHSBOTS. 



Kemarkable Spider Nests in the British Museum. — Seed-nests and Leaf-nests. — 

 Nests of the Tutted Spidek. — Form and Coloring of the Spider. — ^Its curious 

 Limbs. — Nests illustrative of the Hexagonal Principle. — ^Nest of the Icaria. — 

 The Equal Pressure and Excavation Theories. — Nest of Mischoctttaehs and its 

 remarkable Form. — Nest of the Eaphigasteb. — Summary of the Argument. — 



• The Peocessionart Moth. — Reasons for its Name. — How the Larva march. — 

 Damage done by them to Trees. — A natural Remedy. — The Calosoma and its 

 Habits. — The Gipsy Moth. — Its Ravages upon Trees Snd Mode of destroying it. 

 — The Social Principle among Caterpillars. — Mr. Bennie's Experiments. — The 

 Laoket Moth. — Supposed derivations of its popular Name. — The Eggs, Larvte, 

 and perfect Insects. — Habits of the Moth. — ^The Brown-tailed Moth. — Locality 

 where it is found. — Its Ravages abroad. — Nests of the Icaria as they appeal- in 

 Branches. — ^The Apoica : its remarkable Nests. — Moth Nests from Monte Video. 



We have already seen several nests built by Spiders, some of 

 ■which are made in the earth, others are strictly pensile, and 

 others may fairly come into the present group. The specimens 

 from which the drawings were made are in the collection of the 

 British Museum, some in the upper and others in the lower 



