No true trap-door Spider has as yet been found in this country, but the allied Atypidae are represented by at least one species, _Atypus affinis_, which has been discovered in colonies in some localities in the south of England, notably near Ventnor in the Isle of Wight, and on Bloxworth Heath in Dorsetshire. This spider, like its continental cousins, excavates a hole in the earth, generally near the edge of a heathery bank, and lines it with a tube of silk of such firm texture that it may be removed intact from the earth in which it is embedded. The silken tube projects some two inches above the ground, either erect among the roots of the heather, or lying loosely upon the surface. Its extremity is always found to be closed, whether from its own elasticity or by the deliberate act of the proprietor is uncertain, and it seems probable that the animal spends almost the whole of its existence in the tube. Simon believes that it feeds almost entirely upon earth-worms which burrow into its vicinity, and which it, therefore, need not leave its nest to catch; but the remains of beetles and earwigs have been found in the tubes at Ventnor. [Illustration: FIG. 194.—Funnel of _Cyrtauchenius elongatus_. (After M‘Cook.) ] This description of nest seems common to all species of the genus _Atypus_. The American “Purse-web Spider,” _A. abboti_, burrows at the foot of a tree, against the trunk of which it rears the projecting portion of its silken tube. At the bottom of the nest the cavity is enlarged, and blind processes project in different directions. Another burrowing spider, _Cyrtauchenius elongatus_, surmounts its silk-lined burrow by a funnel-shaped structure of pure white silk, about three inches in height and two or three inches in width. There is no attempt at concealment, and the white funnels are conspicuous among the thin grass, presenting the appearance of fungi. The burrowing habit is also common to the Wolf-spiders or Lycosidae, but beyond a very slight lining of silk there is usually little spinning work about their nests. Occasionally there is a certain amount of superstructure in the shape of a silken funnel (_Lycosa tigrina_, M‘Cook), or of an agglomeration of twigs and pebbles, as in the case of the “Turret-spider” (_Lycosa arenicola_, Scudder). [Illustration: FIG. 195.—Turret of _Lycosa carolinensis_. (After M‘Cook.) ]