Supplement to Harvesting Ants and Trap-Door Spiders — John Shaqi
Supplement to Harvesting Ants and Trap-Door SpidersMoggridge, John Traherne
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Supplement to Harvesting Ants and Trap-Door Spiders
Moggridge, John Traherne
Ants; Trap-door spiders
Supplement to Harvesting Ants and Trap-door Spiders.
J. Traherne Moggridge
Transcriber's Note: Text emphasis denoted as _Italic_ and =Bold=.
Whole numbers and fractional parts as 123-4/5.
SUPPLEMENT
TO
HARVESTING ANTS
AND
TRAP-DOOR SPIDERS.
SUPPLEMENT
TO
HARVESTING ANTS
AND
TRAP-DOOR SPIDERS.
BY
J. TRAHERNE MOGGRIDGE, F.L.S., F.Z.S.
_WITH SPECIFIC DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPIDERS,_
BY THE
REV. O. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE.
[Illustration]
LONDON:
L. REEVE & CO., 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
1874.
LONDON:
SAVILL, EDWARDS AND CO., PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET,
COVENT GARDEN.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
SUPPLEMENT TO HARVESTING ANTS 157
SUPPLEMENT TO TRAP-DOOR SPIDERS 180
SPECIFIC DESCRIPTIONS OF SPIDERS 254
EXPLANATION OF PLATES.
Plate XIII., p. 183, fig. A.--Silk lining of tube of _Atypus
piceus_ (Sulz.), taken at Troyes in Champagne, and
communicated to me by M. E. Simon; B, drawing of portion
of nest of _Cyrtauchenius elongatus_ (Sim.) made after the
description of the discoverer, and subject to his (M. E.
Simon's) corrections. This is the only illustration in the
present work not taken from an actual specimen. These figures
are of the natural size.
Plate XIV., p. 193.--Diagrams of the known types of trap-door nest.
Fig. A, nest of _Atypus piceus_ (Sulz.); B, nest of cork
type; B 1, the layers of silk with earth rims of which a cork
door is composed; C, single-door unbranched wafer type; D,
single-door branched wafer type; E double-door unbranched
wafer type; E 1, lower door of the same, of the natural size;
F, Hyères double-door branched wafer type; F 1, lower door
of the same, of the natural size; G, and G 1, double-door
branched cavity wafer type. At G 1 the perfect type is seen,
while at G, the descending cavity, the outlines of which are
indicated by dotted lines, has been filled up; G 2, lower
door of the same of the natural size. (Figs. A, B, C, D,
E, F, G and G 1, diagrammatic representations of nest on a
reduced scale, Figs. B 1, E 1, F 1 and G 2, of the natural
size).
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