A paper by the present writer in the _Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science_ for April 1890 continued this investigation, and shewed the special operations in which the various glands participated in the case of the Garden Spider. INDEX Aerial flights, 32 _Agelena_, 38-46 Agelenidae, 11, 38 _Araneae theraphosae_, 87 _Araneae verae_, 87, 89 _Argyroneta_, 3, 49, 50, 51, 52 Arthropoda, 6 Attidae, 4, 33, 52, 76-87 Atypidae, 93 _Atypus affinis_, 89, 121 Balloons, 34 Banana spider, 103 Barking spider, 107 Bird-eating spiders, 25, 89, 99 Body parasites, 123 Burrows, 63 Calamistrum, 118 Cannibalism, 33, 120 Carrying the young, 73 Characteristics of spiders, 4 Chelicerae, 10, 87 Cocoon, 12, 44, 64 Cocoon of _Agelena_, 44 Crab-spiders, 52 Cribellum, 118 Crustacea, 6 _Cyclosa conica_, 28 Darwin’s Pike, 22 _Desis_, 49 Drassidae, 11 Drumming spider, 109 _Dugesiella hentzi_, 99 Educability, 22, 27, 28 Egg parasites, 121 Enemies of spiders, 120 Energy stored in the egg, 130 _Epeira_, 3, 19, 112-116, 119 _E. diademata_, 13 Eyes of jumping spiders, 78 Feet of spiders, 119 Foundation lines, 13, 14, 16, 17 Garden-spider, 2, 13, 15, 19, 20, 23, 27, 39, 78, 121, 123, 126, 128 Gossamer, 36 Habits of _Agelena_, 38 _Atypus_, 90 Jumping spiders, 79 Tarantula, 69 Theraphosid spiders, 99 Trap-door spiders, 95 Harvest spiders, 8 Hearing, 23, 101 _Heteropoda venatorius_, 37 Hibernation, 2, 131 Hub, 13, 14 Huntsman spider, 37 _Hyptiotes paradoxus_, 31 Infant mortality, 120, 121 Instinct, 21, 22, 29, 46, 129 Jumping spiders, 4, 76-87 _Linyphia_, 3, 32 Love dances, 82-87 Lung-books, 10 _Lycosa kochi_, 109 _Lycosa picta_, 61 Lycosidae, 5, 33, 52, 58-76 Mammillae, 10 Marine spiders, 49 Mental powers, 20 _Meta segmentata_, 23 Mimicry, 55-58 _Misumena_, 54 Moulting, 104, 122 Notched zone, 13, 14 _Philodromus_, 54 _Phrynarachne_, 57 _Pirata_, 59, 66 Poison of spiders, 75 Poison gland, 88 _Psalmopoeus cambridgii_, frontispiece, 103 Purring spider, 109 Rastellum, 98 Recognition of cocoons, 66 Red spider, 8 Scopula, 119 Sight, 23, 60, 81, 101 Silk glands, 111, 112 Smell, 25, 100 Solitary wasps, 124, 125 Spigots, 111, 113-116 Spinnerets, 8, 110-118 Spinning apparatus, 110 Spinning glands, 111 Spinning operations, 117 Spools, 111, 113, 114, 115 Starvation, 122 Stridulation, 25, 105 Stridulating Keys, 107, 108 Tarantula, 68-74, 128 Tarsus, 119 Taste, 26 _Theraphosa leblondi_, 94 Theraphosidae, 25, 87-104 Theridiidae, 33 _Theridion_, 3, 23, 32 Thomisidae, 33, 52 Touch, 27, 101, 102 Tracheae, 6 Trap-door spiders, 89, 94, 98 Trap-snares, 31 Use of spiders, 127 Viscid spiral, 15, 18, 19, 20, 116 Water-spiders, 48-52 Wolf-spiders, 58, 76 Zebra spider, 77 CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS THE CAMBRIDGE MANUALS OF SCIENCE AND LITERATURE