  - Abdomen, 12, 16.
- Adhesive threads, 67.
- Adult characters of spiders, 87.
- Agalena, web of, 55.
- AgalenidÆ, 26.
- Age of spiders, 112.
- Air-sacs, 22.
- Air-tubes, 12.
- Anyphena, flying of, 84.
- Argiope, web of, 67.
- Argyrodes, 58.
- AttidÆ, 28.
- Attus, flying of, 85.
- Bertkau, experiments on poison of spiders, 34.
- Blackwall, age of spiders, 112;
- experiments on poison, 35;
- on blowing out of threads, 80;
- on flying spiders, 82.
- Blind spiders, 113.
- Blowing of threads, 80.
- Breathing-organs, 16, 22.
- Calamistrum, 73.
- California trap-door spider, 49.
- Care of young, 104.
- Cave spiders, 113.
- CiniflonidÆ, 72.
- Classification of spiders, 11, 23.
- Claws, 14.
- Cobwebs, 54.
- Cocoons, 98.
- Colors of spiders, 17, 19.
- Concealment of spiders, 70.
- Copulation, 94.
- Crab spiders, 29.
- Cribellum, 72.
- Curled webs, 72.
- Darwin on flying spiders, 83.
- Dictyna, spinning of, 73;
- regular webs of, 74.
- Distribution of spiders, 113.
- Doleschall, experiments on poison of spiders, 34.
- Dolomedes, nest for young, 53.
- Dorsal groove, 17.
- DrassidiÆ, 26.
- Eggs, laying, 98;
- growth of, 105.
- Embryo spiders, 105.
- EpeiridÆ, 31.
- Epigynum, 92.
- Erigone, heads of male, 88.
- Eyes, 17.
- Feet, 14.
- Flying of spiders, 79.
- Food of trap-door spiders, 50.
- Growth of spiders, Electrotyped by C. J. Peters & Son, Boston, Mass.
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