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 megacephala, 160

exustus, feeding on seeds collected by ants, 175

Robin eating ants, 163 (note)

Seed-stores of ants, Jewish laws about, 165

Seeds, intervention of ants necessary to prevent germination of, 172; non-germination of in granaries, 171

Wakefield (Mr.), on ants collecting violet seeds, 159 (note)

PART II.—TRAP-DOOR SPIDERS.

Ants form a large part of food of trap-door spiders, 237

bleodonticus (Sim.), 183 (note); piceus (Sulzer), nests of, 182-3, 248; species of in England, 181, 185

Australia, nest of wafer type from, 217

Bates (Mr. H. W.), on the nest of Theraphosa Blondii, 188

Beetle ( Banksii) rejected by trap-door spider, 241

Blackwall (Mr. J.), on the poison of spiders, 201

Bordeaux, new type of nest at, 211

Brown (Mr. Joshua), discovery of Atypus in England, 185

California, trap-door spider from, 198-9; habits of in captivity, 203, &c.; indifference to sounds, 206

Captive spiders, habits of, 203, 218, 242-6

Caterpillar (larva of verbasci), eaten by trap-door spider, 239

Cell and tube made by N. Eleanora, 218; hygrometricity of, 220

Chrysomela Banksii, distasteful to trap-door spider, 241

Cork nest, 193; structure of door of, 193

californica (Camb.), 198, 202, 248; description of, 260; eggs laid by, 203; habits of in captivity, 203, &c.; indifference to sounds, 206; mode of excavating, 208; fodiens (Walck.), 195, 248, 259; ionica, 210; Moggridgii (Camb.), 196; description of, 254; habits of in captivity, 243, 246

verbasci, larva of, eaten by trap-door spider, 239

elongatus (Sim.), nest of, 189, 248

Diagrams representing different types of nest, 193

Earwig (Forficula) eaten by trap-door spiders, 238

Eggs of californica, 203

Enemies of spiders, 200, 205

Enlargement of nests, 245

Excavation of trap-door nests, 208, 243-