474 On the bird- devouring habits of a species of Spider. [No. 6. 



al-Harith III. 6th King. 



called aU A Waj, Ibn Aby Shimr and Ibn Maria; the most distinguish- 

 ed King of the dynasty. Takes Khaybar ; destroys the king of Hyrah 

 al-Mondzir b. Ma as-sama about A. D. 563. (Ibn Qotaybah p. 412, 

 compare Freytag Prov. Ar. II p. 611). Hamzah mentions him under 

 number 7 and 26. He reigned 21 years and 5 months. He is mentioned 

 by Vincent in the Periplus, p. 248 note. 



.-A.. 



an-No'man al-Mondzir Jabalah 'Amr 9th King. al-Harith IV. 



7th King. 

 Mas'udy and 

 Hamzah (Nos. 

 9and27)reign- 

 ed 15 years and 

 six months. 



8th King. 

 Mas'udy and 

 Hamzah (Nos. 

 8, 10 and 30) 

 reigned 13 



years. He is 

 called Mond- 

 zir the Elder. 



(Hamzah Nos. 13 

 and 32) reigned 

 10 years and 2 

 months. Mas'- 

 udy calls him 

 'Auf. 



al-Ayham 

 1 

 Jabalah 11th and last King 



was on the throne in A. H. 7 (Waqidy and Ibn Ishaq). 

 Hassan b. Thabit made songs in his praise. Dethroned in A. D. 



10th King. 

 A contemporary 

 of No'man b. 

 Mondzir of Hy- 

 rah. Hassan b. 

 Thabit makes po- 

 ems in his praise, 

 (Mas'udy and Ki- 

 tab al-Aghamy 

 and Hamzah). 



637. 



Note on the bird-devouring habit of a species of Spider ; by Capt. 

 W. S. Sherwill. Communicated by Mr. Blyth.* 



During one of my rambles in company with four other officers in 

 the army, amongst the Karrakpur hills, in the immediate neighbour- 

 hood of Monghyr, on the Ganges, I fell in with several gigantic webs 

 of a large black and red spider, which stretching across our path in 

 many spots, offered from their great strength a sensible resistance when 

 forcing our way through them. The webs are of a bright yellow 

 colour, and we found them stretching from ten to twenty feet, that is, 

 including the grey ropes which are generally fastened to some neigh- 

 bouring tree or a clump of bambus, the reticulated portion being about 

 five feet in diameter, in the centre of which the spider sits waiting for 



* This interesting communication on the contested subject of bird-eating spiders 

 originated in my request that the author would commit to paper the observation 

 of which he had assured me in conversation. — E, B. 



