Facts and Thoughts about Spiders. T91 
when the prisoner called it with musical sounds to 
be fed. 
The spiders I have spoken of up till now are 
timid, inoffensive creatures, chiefly of the Epeira 
family ; but there are many others exceedingly 
high-spirited and, like some of the most touchy 
hymenopteras, always prepared to ‘^greatly quarrel ” 
over matters of little moment. The Mygales, of 
■which we have several species, are not to be treated 
with contempt. One is extremely abundant on the 
pampas, the My gale fuse a, a veritable monster, 
covered with dark brown hair, and called in the 
vernacular aranea peliida — hairy spider. In the 
hot month of December these spiders take to roam- 
ing about on the open plain, and are then every- 
where seen travelling in a straight line with a slow 
I^iygale fueca, threatening. 
