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Captive trap-door spiders, 118, 122, 143.

Claws, compared in different trap-door spiders, 86;
  retractile, 87 (note).

Construction of trap-door nests, 118, 122, 123, 149.

Cork nests, 80, 88, 94, 97, 116, 124, 131, 132, 141.

Costa (O. G.), on Mygale (Nemesia) meridionalis, 105, 137.

Cteniza ariana, 115, 135, 141;
  ædificatorius,] 85;
  fodiens, 89;
  ionica, 91;
  nidulans, 81.


Double-door branched nest, 80, 98, 103-106, 131.

Double-door unbranched nest, 80, 98, 106, 111, 131.

Dufour (Léon), on the nest of Lycosa tarentula, 146.


Enemies of spiders, 101, 134.

Epeira fasciata, cocoon of, 76.

Erber, on the nocturnal habits of Cteniza ariana, 115, 135, 141.


Geographical range of species of trap-door spiders, 131, 132, 133, 143.

Gosse (P. H.), on the single-door wafer nest in Jamaica, 80-83.


Instinct (?) of nest building in very young spiders, 123, 126, 128.


Lucas (H.), on spiders having retractile claws, 87.

Lycosa tarentula, M. Dufour on the nest of, 146.


Male of Nemesia Eleanora, 109, 115.

Mygalidæ, name changed to Territelariæ, 75.


Nemesia cœmentaria, 73, 92, 97, resisting when the door is touched, 94-96;
  cellicola, 141, 147, 148;
  Eleanora, 98, 106, 108, 112;
  Manderstjernæ, 147;
  meridionalis, 98, 101, 137.

Nest of Lycosa tarentula, 146.

Nocturnal habits of trap-door spiders, 115, 116.


Olivier, on cork nests at Hyères, 115.


Rossi (P.), on Cteniza fodiens, 73.

Resistance of spiders when doors are touched, 94-96, 100, 112.


Saunders (S. S.), on Cteniza (Mygale) ionica, 91, 122.

Sauvages (Abbé), on Nemesia cæmentaria,mentaria previously] 73.

Selection of materials for trap-doors, 119, 120.

Sells (W.), on the nest of Cteniza nidulans, 83.

Single-door wafer nests, 80, 131.


Tarsi of spiders furnished with a viscous secretion, enabling them to traverse perpendicular polished surfaces, 87.

Territelariæ a sub-order of Araneæ, formerly called Mygalidæ, 75.