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
Plate XV., p. 198, fig. A.--Nest of _Cteniza Californica_ (Camb.)
nearly entire, enclosed in the clayey earth of the bank from
which the specimen was taken, the door being artificially
represented as being partly open; A 1, door of the same as
seen when closed; B, _Cteniza Californica_ (Camb.) from a
living specimen; B 1, the same seen in spirits, the legs not
represented; B 2, the same seen sideways; (figs. A, A 1, B, B
1 and B 2, are of the natural size); B 3, the eyes, greatly
magnified; B 4, the three claws terminating the tarsal joint
of the hindmost left leg; B 5, line representing the measured
length of the spider excluding the falces and spinners, the
uppermost division gives the length of the caput terminating
at the half-moon-shaped fovea, the middle division that of
the thorax, and the lowest that of the abdomen, while the
transverse line gives the breadth of the cephalothorax; B 6,
eggs laid by the spider in captivity on the under side of the
gauze which covered the box (the position is reversed here)
of the natural size; B 7, the same magnified; B 8, another
group of eggs, magnified; B 9, a portion of the same still
more highly magnified; B 10, lines showing measured lengths
of legs of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th pairs, and of palpus,
with those of the several joints.
Plate XVI., p. 211, fig. A.--Part of the nest of _Nemesia Simoni_
(Camb.) taken at Bordeaux; A 1, _N. Simoni_ (Camb.) from
life, of the natural size; A 2, the same seen in spirits,
the legs not represented; A 3, the same seen sideways and
magnified; A 4, the eyes, magnified; A 5, the thoracic fovea,
magnified; A 6, line showing measured length of spider, (see
above explanation of fig. B 5, plate XV.); A 7, lines showing
measured lengths of legs of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th pairs,
and palpus of spider, with those of the several joints. B,
cephalothorax and abdomen of another specimen of _N. Simoni_,
in which the proportions are different, taken from life, of
the natural size.
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