. Nature sketches in temperate America, a series of sketches and a popular account of insects, birds, and plants, treated from some aspects of their evolution and ecological relations . the same spot anddexterously lifts up the mass with hermouth parts and lays the pellet thusformed beside the preceding one. Bysuch repetitions she soon temporarilyencircles the newly made pit with herinternal diggings. As the hole isdeepened, oftentimes she stands headdown in the hole and pats down thenew-formed opening with her an hour she may be down thedepth of her body and the hole excavateds
. Nature sketches in temperate America, a series of sketches and a popular account of insects, birds, and plants, treated from some aspects of their evolution and ecological relations . the same spot anddexterously lifts up the mass with hermouth parts and lays the pellet thusformed beside the preceding one. Bysuch repetitions she soon temporarilyencircles the newly made pit with herinternal diggings. As the hole isdeepened, oftentimes she stands headdown in the hole and pats down thenew-formed opening with her an hour she may be down thedepth of her body and the hole excavatedsufficiently large to turn around in. Theneach parcel of sand, after being made andbrought up to the entrance, is snapped aw ayfrom her mandibles with a sudden motion ofher palpi. As she progresses, she frequentlypauses to line the tube inside with silk,or may often reinforce the surface alreadycovered to prevent the caving in of the about ten inches of excavation isaccomplished she usually ceases her labors,for the tube is now practically completed. The operation just witnessed is often performed in thedaylight, but the castle, which forms an after addition, is rarely. The CastLe-buudmg Spider {Lycosa do- mifex) in the bottom of her burrow. 190 NATURE SKETCHES IN TEMPERATE AMERICA constructed excepting at night. To see her manoeuvres duringthe latter work, one will be more successful in making observa-tions by artificial light. I found that in the vivarium somematerials, such as I have seen entering into the composition
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