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 XIX., p. 229, fig. A.--Nest of a young specimen of _N.
Manderstjernæ_ (Ausserer = _N. meridionalis_ Camb., in "Ants
and Spiders," p. 101) from Mentone, showing the descending
cavity, with the lower door pushed across, so as to close
the main tube and join the cavity; A 1, upper portion of
the same, showing the lower door closing the branch. B,
_N. cæmentaria_ (Latr.) from a living specimen taken at
Montpellier; B 1, the same seen in spirits of wine, legs not
represented; B 2, the eyes, magnified; B 3, one of the two
larger claws; and B 4, the small claw of the tarsus of one of
the hindmost legs; B 5, length of spider; B 6, measurements
of legs and palpus. C, the eyes of _N. Moggridgii_ (Camb.)
(= _N. cæmentaria_, Camb., in "Ants and Spiders," p. 92),
magnified. D, _N. incerta_ (Camb.), male, from a specimen
preserved in spirits, collected at Digne in the Basses
Alpes, by M. E. Simon, who kindly lent me the specimen for
examination, represented of twice the natural size, and
without the legs; D 1, another view of the same; D 2, radial
and digital joints of the palpus and palpal bulb, magnified;
D 3, back view of the same; D 4, the eyes magnified. E, eyes
of _N. dubia_ (Camb.), male (= _N. cæmentaria_, Sim.), from
a specimen in spirits, collected in the Pyrénées Orientales,
communicated by M. Simon, magnified; E 1, radial and digital
joints of the palpus with palpal bulb of the same, magnified;
E 2, another view of the same.
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