. American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . h,toms of the case treated bythat the man was power-ic and acid poison, whichlation affected the heart,to a very considerable ex-fatal syncope. The manammonia, aj^plied to theand water, afterward com-men; h, underside of the siderable doscs internally. specimen marked g; e, f, ,, --^ . i-, g, h are enlarged two, c the Maories are well ac- and d three times, b four (JerS, and haVC alwaVS con-times the original. - gerous. Ihe tufts of sed
. American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . h,toms of the case treated bythat the man was power-ic and acid poison, whichlation affected the heart,to a very considerable ex-fatal syncope. The manammonia, aj^plied to theand water, afterward com-men; h, underside of the siderable doscs internally. specimen marked g; e, f, ,, --^ . i-, g, h are enlarged two, c the Maories are well ac- and d three times, b four (JerS, and haVC alwaVS con-times the original. - gerous. Ihe tufts of sedgeupon the sea beach are the favorite haunts of the red spotted variety, andthe natives avoid sleeping in such places. Half a stones throw inland,however, they do not fear the Katipo, as they call the aranead. Thisstatement appears to me to throw discredit upon the entire testimony ofthe natives, for it is not possible to believe that the venomous characterof the spider can be affected by a simple removal from the sedgy growthalong the seashore to the herbage half a stones throw inland. Mr. Gosse* records the effect produced upon one of his servants who. e, f, g, upper side of abdo- ^ Annals Entomological Society of France, 1S43, page 8. 2 Insect Life, Vol. I., No. 7, pages 204-11. ^ Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1869. ?•P. H. Gosse: Naturalists Sojoiu-n in Jamaica, page 241. 276 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. was bitten by one of the large, beautiful Nephilas who spin their hugeorbwebs in the forests of Jamaica. Coming tlirougli the woods at earlydawn his face came into collision with one of the strong webs. He stoppedto brush it off, and immediately felt some large insect run down his body,which presently bit him on his great toe. The pain was less severe thanthat following the sting of a wasp, or even the puncture of a Tabanus;but the man described it as having three distinct paroxysms—if one mayuse such a term for so small a matter. The pain was n
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