12 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
PART VI.—PROVISION FOR NURTURE AND DEFENSE. 
CHAPTER XV. 
* PROCURING FOOD AND FEEDING. 
PAGES 
Food taking Tools—Handling the Snare—Accuracy of Perception—Treatment of Insects— 
Swathing the Prey—The Banquet Room—Deporting Swathed Insects—Trussing Cap- 
tives—Acrosoma Trapping Flies—Order and Subordination of Instincts—Flies Ban- 
queting with a Spider—Location Controls Food—Prolonged Abstinence—Comparative 
Feeding Habits—How the Tarantula Feeds—Need of Water—Drinking Habits— 
Does the Spider Eat Its Web?—Wear and Tear of Snares—Mending the Web—En- 
tangling Insects—The Spider as a Philanthropist—Man as an Ingrate .... . 247-267 
CHAPTER XVI. 
EFFECTS AND USES OF POISON. 
The Fangs and Poison Bag—Blackwall’s Experiments—Effect of Epeira’s Bite—The 
Inoculation Test—General Harmlessness of Spiders—The Other Side—The Venomous 
Spider of New Zealand—Latrodectus mactans—The Popular “Black Spider ”’—In- 
definite Testimony—Phidippus morsitans—Effect of Spider Venom on Insects— 
Poison as a Reserve Weapon--Popular Notions—Medical Imaginings—Queer Reme- 
diés—UpelessPeatet pie aoe. leds Sos ae, UD nee vers, ates eed ee ane cine 268-283 
PART VII.—NESTING HABITS, PROTECTIVE ARCHITECTURE, 
AND DEVELOPMENT. 
CHAPTER XVII. 
NESTING HABITS AND PROTECTIVE ARCHITECTURE OF ORBWEAVERS. 
Varieties of Spinningwork—The Nests of Epeira insularis—Leaf rolled Habitations— 
Woven Tents—Shelter Tents—Spider Seamstresses— Variations in Individual Habit— 
Special Adaptations—The Shamrock Spider’s Nest—Epeira domiciliorum and _tria- 
ranea—The Angulata Group—How the Spider Makes a Nest—Sewing Leaves To- 
gether—Spider Upholstery—Nest of the Young—The Nest of Epeira thaddeus—The 
Domed Tent of Triaranea—Labyrinthea’s Nest—The Leafy Canopy of Labyrinthea— 
Origin of the Nest making Habit—Intelligent Selection—Design Showed in Sewing— 
Nesting Industry Protective—Various Forms of Tents Summarized. ..... . 284-312 
CHAPTER XVIII. 
NEST MAKING: ITS ORIGIN AND USE: DEVELOPMENT IN VARIOUS TRIBES, 
Comparative Studies—Nests of Tubeweayers—Saltigrades—Lineweavers—Theridium tipar- 
ium, the Prince of Spider Architects—Mode of Building—Use of Artificial Material— 
Nesting Snares of Linyphia—A Tent Among the Morning Glories—Territelarian 
Tubes—Atypus and Cyrtauchenius—Nesting Habit of Citigrades—Of Laterigrades— ~ 
One Common and Typical Form of Nest—The Modes of Making Nests—Method of 
Atypus—Of the Mygalidee—Of the Water Spider—Of Speckled Agalena—Unity of 
Method in All Tribes—Nest Parasitism—Squatter Sovereignty—Comparison with 
Other Orders—Tube making Larvee—Nests of the Caddis Fly Larva—Leaf thatched 
Nest of the Bag Worm—Nest of a Theridioid Spider—The Leaf roller Tortricid 
Moth—Shamrock Spider’s Nest in the Ferns—The Shell of Difflugia—Catholic Re- 
semblance in External Architecture—Creation’s Harmony. .......... 313-835 
