An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 2 / or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects

by William Kirby; William Spence

[525] Latreille, Hist. Nat. xii. 388.

[526] Quoted in the Athenæum, v. 126.

[527] Ray's Letters, 69. 36—.

[528] Ray's Letters, 37. 87. Lister De Aran. 80. Lister illustrates the force with which these creatures shoot their thread, by a homely though very forcible simile: "Resupinata (says he) anum in ventum dedit, filumque ejaculata est quo plane modo robustissimus juvenise distentissima vesicâ urinam."

[529] De Araneis, 8. 27. 64. 75— 79—.

[530] Ibid. 79—.

[531] Ibid. 85.

[532] Nat. Hist. i. 327.

[533] No. lii. 306—.

[534] Cuvier, Anat. Comp. i. 504.