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 TRAP-DOOR SPIDERS WHICH BUILD

Nests of the cork type.

Idiops syriacus, Beirût.

Cteniza fodiens (Ct. Sauvagei), Corsica, Pisa, Mentone.

Ct. ædificatoria, Tangiers.

Ct. (Cyrtocarenum) ionicum, Ionian Islands.

Ct. (Cyrtocarenum) Ariana, Naxos, Tinos.

Nemesia cæmentaria, South of France, Spain, Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, Algiers, and the var. germanica from Wippach, near Görz.

[Nests, apparently of the true cork type, have also been found in Australia, New Granada, India, and the island of Formosa, but their occupants are unknown.]

Nests of the single-door wafer type.

Cteniza nidulans, West Indies (and South America?)

Nests of the double-door branched type.

Nemesia meridionalis, Mentone, Cannes, and Sestri, near Genoa.

Nests of the double-door unbranched type.

Nemesia Eleanora. Mentone, and Cannes.

As far, therefore, as I know at present, the cork type of nest is the only one which is widely spread, and which is constructed by spiders of more than one species. For, while the single-door wafer, and the branched and unbranched double-door nests are each the work of one particular spider, we see that nests of the cork type are made by spiders of six distinct species, belonging to at least three genera.

It is almost certain that a much larger number of spiders of different kinds, though all probably members of the sub-order Territelariæ, construct nests of the cork type, for descriptions and specimens of trap-*doors of this kind are brought from the most distant parts of the globe. It is true that these specimens and descriptions usually only show us the surface-door, but as far as our present knowledge goes, we