[346] Ibid. vii. 581.

[347] Plate [XIX]. Fig. 1. a.

[348] Merian Surinam. 17. Jones in Linn. Trans. ii. 64.

[349] De Geer, ii. 989— t. xxxvii. f. 6.

[350] De Geer, v. 291. Compare Ray's Letters, 43. See Plate [XVIII]. Fig. 1.

[351] Ann. du Mus. xviii. 70.

[352] Lesser L. i. 284, note 6.

[353] De Araneis 27.

[354] This gentleman is of opinion that spiders possess the means of re-dissolving their webs. He observed one, when its net was broken run up its thread, and gathering a considerable mass of the web into a ball, suddenly dissolve it with fluid. He also observes, that when winding up a powerful prey, a spider can form its threads into a broad sheet.

[355] Jurine Hymenopt. t. vi. f. 8.