Packard.] RELATIONS OF INSECTS TO MAN-. 
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to man. Hentz, our best American authority, after twenty 
years of study declared that spiders were not poisonous to 
man. Blackwall, the English authorit} T , says that none in 
England are poisonous, as he allowed them to bite him on 
Fig. 62 . 
Trap door Spider, Mygalc. 
different parts of his person without any harm resulting. 
Occasionally we see deaths reported from the bite of spiders. 
A late number of “ Nature ” contains a notice of the Ivatipo, 
or venomous spider of New Zealand. Its bite is “ occa- 
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