10 TABI,E OF CONTENTS. 



PA0B8 



Great Ant Thrush — Raiding the Driver Ants — Are Wasps Mimicked ?—AntB eat 

 Spiders— Form Mimicry of Environinent— Tetragnatha extensa — Mimiclcing Knots 

 and Buds — Color Mimicry — Ambusli in l'"lowers— Misumena vatia — Mimicking Wild 

 Flowers — English Mimics— Minucking Bark and the Ground — Natural Selection and 

 Mimicry — Metallic Colors— Cocoon Mimicry— Cyclosa caudata and her Cocoon — 

 Young Mimics— A Savage's Decoration — Protective Resendilanc^e 352-377 



CHAPTER Xni. 



ENEMIES AND THEIK INFLUENCE ON HAHIT. 



Perils of Spiders — Season Changes— Animal Destroyers —Rats eat Spiders— Sheep also— 

 Cannibalism— Goethe on Robber Wasps— The Mud Dauber's Nest— The Blue AVasp 

 hawking for Spiders— A VV'aspling I^arva at work — Wasp Poison— The Cicada 

 Wasp— Pipes of Pan— The Tarantula Killei-— Special Selection— Characteristics of 

 Captives— Social Wasps — Nest Parasitism— The Pirate Spider— A Spider Feud- 

 Spider Duels— Body Parasites— Parasites on Eggs — Saltigrade Guests— Parasitized 

 Cocoons — Mold, Flies, and Birds — Foolishly Hostile Man — Arachne as a Forest 

 Keeper— A rjichne a Philanthropist— Influence of Enemies on Industry — Moulting 

 Tents— C'limate Covers — Self Protective Industry— The Tiger Spider and her 

 Bower— Elis 4-notata— The Burial of Lycosa — Lycosa tarentula — Trapdoor Hpi- 

 ders— Strange Towers and their Builders— Secret Chambers in the Earth— A new 

 Use of the Abdomen — Shaping the Cocoon 378-418 



CHAPTER XIV. 



DEATH AND ITS DISGUISES, HIBERNATION AND DEATH FEIGNING. 



The Decline of A rgiope— Fashions of Death— First Stages of Mortalitj'— Sexta's Death 

 Record— Death after (bcooning— Dimit of Life — Lubbock's old Ant Queen — The 

 oldest Spider— Tarantula's Age— Winter Habits— Winter Dens— AVinter Tents- 

 Hunting on the Snow— Hibernation— Sudden Resuscitation— Death Feigning— Not 

 Fear Paralysis, but 'Possuming— The Peckhams' Studies— Wonderful Shamming— 

 A Spider Stoic— Darwin's View — Origin of Death Feigning— Voluntary Hypnotism 

 among Men— Purpose of the Habit— Fabre's Studies 419-445 



PART VI.— FOSSIL SPIDERS. 



CHAPTER XV. 



ANCESTRAL SPIDERS AND THEIR HABITS. 



Sites of American Fossils — Scudder's Studies— Lake Florissant — Cause of Entombment — 

 Manner of Entombment— Volcanic Showers— Oeningen Spiders— Fossil Nephila— 

 Climatic Conditions— European Fossil Spiders— Fossil and Existing Fauna— The 

 Oldest known Spider— Eoatypus woodwardii— Fossil Tunnelweavers— Geological 

 Position of American Fossil Spiders— Fossil Spinningwork— Fossil Cocoons— The- 

 ridiosoma Cocoon— Unmodified Industry— The Amber Tree— Sources of Ambei-— 

 Amber Land— Amber Bay— Trees running Amber— Deep Sea Storehouses— Break- 

 ing up the Storehouses— Climate of Amber Land— Insect Food of Amber Spiders- 

 Spiders of the Amber — Archea paradoxa— Embalming Amber Insects — A Romance 

 of Amber Land 44(M69 



