ILLUSTRATIONS 
Frontispiece 
The under side of the cephalo-thorax, showing attach- 
ment of legs . 
Mrs. Epeira’s leg . 
Mrs. Epeira’s foot : 
‘¢ She performs all sorts of athletic feats” . 
Male palp 
Maxilla with palp 
Diagram showing the poison-gland with the tube lead- 
ing to the tip of the poison-fang 
Mrs. Epeira’s eyes 
The six spinnerets 
Framework and spokes of Mrs. Epeira’s house 
“ She glides along the frail, swaying thread”? . 
Mrs. Epeira’s house with the foundation and the spiral 
scaffolding 
Mrs. Epeira’s finished house 
‘¢ Tt looks like a string of tiny beads ” 
Two spokes of a web with the inelastic threads 
The inelastic threads replaced by sticky threads . 
‘¢ There, it has touched the wheel”’ . 
‘‘Tthas become a little white mummy ”’. 
‘Tt is a unique little room, shaped like a bell ”’ 
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