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stronger wooden sticks (Fig. 3). On one side a little colony of 
lichens was flourishing. 
In this shaft, which was wider than the others, I found a very 
large specimen of the same 
species. Handling itsome- 
what carelessly, it awoke, 
and turning quick around, 
it with such force, that it 
clung on my raised hand. 
The pain was intense and 
about as acute as that from 
the sting of a wasp, but j; 
it disappeared in twenty 
minutes, while the swell- 
ing of the finger and of 
half the hand, lasted over 
two hours. j 
glass jar three-fourths full of earth, and put the spider in its new 
home. It laid motionless on the ground, and I thought it was 
dead, but the next morning I found that it had dug, during the 
night, a hole 5 mm. deep, which it occupied. The following 
nights it deepened the shaft more and more until the depth was 
12cm. I strewed little sticks of broomcorn over the ground, and 
during the night it had placed a few sticks around the hole. 
Every morning it had added a few sticks, and at the end of the 
week the nest was complete, measuring 3.5 cm. in height. All 
stant by the spider outside the habitation. I then fed her regu- 
larly with flies, and she would jump up after them. Did the fly 
