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ments produced became very great, and he suggests that gos- 
samer consists merely of accnmnlations of useless threads. He 
tliinks tliat tlic statement tliat tlie male Spider approaches the 
female cautiously, for fear of being devoured, is erroneous, and 
mentions his having observed three nets (one large one with a 
small one on each side of it) stretched upon the same system of 
threads in a web of Epeira patagiata, 
J. IT. EisrERTON publishes (Amer. Natural, ii. p. 47G-481) a general 
popular account of the habits of Spiders, chiefly relating to the Epoi'ridno. 
On plate 11. fig. 1 ho figures the geometric -web of one of theso species, and 
gives outline figures of Epeira vulgaris (Ilentz) and the details of its struc- 
ture (figs. 2-8). 
Fryer (.Tourn. N. China Branch Roy. Asiatic Soc. n. s. iv. p. 76) notices 
several species of Spiders which are common at Shanghai. Among them is 
a large species marked with red, gold, silver, and black, which makes a web 
strong enough to catch even the largest Beetles, and sometimes to support a 
cap thrown into it. 
Lucas notices the Spiders of the neighbourhood of Roscoff, Einisterre, 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Er. 1868, pp. xciii, xciv. 
ScYTOniDA3. 
Scgtodcs u,nicolor, Canestrini, Ann. Soc. Nat. Modena, iii. p. 202, Tuscany. 
Myoaltda?. 
Clcnka ariana (Walck.). Ihher notices tho habits of this Spider as ob- 
served by him in the island of Tinos (Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xviii. 
pp. 906, 906). At night theso Spiders come out of their nests, fasten the 
open trapdoor to neighbouring objects, and spin a net about six inches long 
by scarcely half an inch in height. Erber saw a Pimelia and a Cephalostmus 
caught in two of these nets ; the Spiders sucked out their fluids and then 
removed the empty skin several feet from their burrows. In the morning 
the nets were removed, and Erber believes the net of each night is added to 
the trapdoor. lie found the eggs at the bottom of the tubes, attached 
singly to threads to the number of about sixty. The young seem to form 
dwellings for themselves very early. 
Mygole hicolor, Lucas publishes a note on this species, which attains a 
length of 85 millim.. (Bull. Soc. Ent. Er. 1868, pp. xix, xx). 
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iXp' Lycosid^e. 
Lucas notices the occurrence of Ilerselia oraniensis in Spain, and indicates 
a species from IMadagascar, which he proposes to name II. vmsonii, but does 
not describe. Bull. Soc. Ent. Er. 1868, p. xli. 
SalticiDvE. 
E. Simon has published (Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 4® serie, viii. 
pp. 11-72 and 529-726) a monograph of the European species 
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