Pheidole megacephala, 160
Pterocles exustus, feeding on seeds collected by ants, 175
Robin eating ants, 163 (note)
Seed-stores of ants, Jewish laws about, 165
Seeds, intervention of ants necessary to prevent germination of, 172;
non-germination of in granaries, 171
Wakefield (Mr.), on ants collecting violet seeds, 159 (note)
PART II.—TRAP-DOOR SPIDERS.
Ants form a large part of food of trap-door spiders, 237
Atypus bleodonticus (Sim.), 183 (note);
piceus (Sulzer), nests of, 182-3, 248;
species of in England, 181, 185
Australia, nest of wafer type from, 217
Bates (Mr. H. W.), on the nest of Theraphosa Blondii, 188
Beetle (Chrysomela Banksii) rejected by trap-door spider, 241
Blackwall (Mr. J.), on the poison of spiders, 201
Bordeaux, new type of nest at, 211
Brown (Mr. Joshua), discovery of Atypus in England, 185
California, trap-door spider from, 198-9;
habits of in captivity, 203, &c.;
indifference to sounds, 206
Captive spiders, habits of, 203, 218, 242-6
Caterpillar (larva of Cucullia verbasci), eaten by trap-door spider, 239
Cell and tube made by N. Eleanora, 218;
hygrometricity of, 220
Chrysomela Banksii, distasteful to trap-door spider, 241
Cork nest, 193;
structure of door of, 193
Cteniza californica (Camb.), 198, 202, 248;
description of, 260;
eggs laid by, 203;
habits of in captivity, 203, &c.;
indifference to sounds, 206;
mode of excavating, 208;
fodiens (Walck.), 195, 248, 259;
ionica, 210;
Moggridgii (Camb.), 196;
description of, 254;
habits of in captivity, 243, 246
Cucullia verbasci, larva of, eaten by trap-door spider, 239
Cyrtauchenius elongatus (Sim.), nest of, 189, 248
Diagrams representing different types of nest, 193
Earwig (Forficula) eaten by trap-door spiders, 238
Eggs of Cteniza californica, 203
Enemies of spiders, 200, 205
Enlargement of nests, 245
Excavation of trap-door nests, 208, 243-
