Harvesting Ants and Trap-Door Spiders: Notes and Observations on Their Habits and DwellingsMoggridge, John Traherne
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Harvesting Ants and Trap-Door Spiders: Notes and Observations on Their Habits and Dwellings
Moggridge, John Traherne
Ants; Trap-door spiders
Plate VII., p. 88, fig. A.--The nest of _Cteniza fodiens_, the
lower part of which is seen in section lying in the earth, the
door is artificially represented as partly open; A 1, surface
of the door viewed from above; A 2, the spider; A 3, the spider
deprived of its legs, from a specimen preserved in spirits [figs.
A, A 1, A 2, and A 3, are of the natural size]; A 4, the spider
viewed sideways, with the legs removed; A 5, the eyes, viewed
from above and in front; A 6, the cephalothorax and falces; A 7,
the left hand falx, viewed from the inner side; A 8, the fang of
the same; A 9, the tarsal joint of the foremost right leg; A 10,
one of the two larger and the smallest claw of the same [figs.
A 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, all magnified]. Fig. B, the door
of a nest of the same kind, concealed by lichens, below which,
on the left hand, the doors of two minute nests of _Nemesia
meridionalis_ are seen; B 1, the same, with the doors open; C,
the door and mouth of tube of a nest similar to that at A; C 1,
the upper surface of this door, which is slightly convex.
Plate VIII., p. 94, fig. A.--The nest of _Nemesia cæmentaria_;
A 1, the door of the same, partially open; A 2, the spider; A
3, the same deprived of its legs, from a specimen preserved in
spirits [figs. A, A 1, 2, and 3, of the natural size]; figs. A
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 as in Plate VII., and magnified; B, a
moss-covered lump of earth, in which the door of a nest of the
same type as that at A lies concealed; B 1, the same, with the
door open; C, the door and mouth of another similar nest, showing
the claw marks on its under surface; D, the closed door of a
third nest of the same kind; D 1, the same, opened.
Plate IX., p. 98, fig. A.--The nest of _Nemesia meridionalis_; A
1, the open surface-door and mouth of the tube of the same; A 2,
the inner and upper surface of the lower door; A 3, the spider;
A 4, the same deprived of its legs, from a specimen preserved in
spirits [figs. A, A 1, 2, 3, and 4 are of the natural size]; A
5, the spider viewed sideways, with the legs removed; A 6, the
eyes, viewed from above and in front; A 7, the cephalothorax and
falces; A 8, the left hand falx viewed from the inner side; A
9, the fang of the same; A 10, the tarsal joint of the foremost
right leg; A 11, one of the two larger and the smallest claw of
the same [figs. A 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, magnified]; B, a
mass of earth containing the minute nest of a young spider (_N.
meridionalis_); B 1, the lower door of this nest; B 2, the spider
[figs. B, B 1, and 2, of the natural size].
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