...nothing to eat, and yet they never attacked one another, as other spiders would have been apt to do."* " These spiders," says De Geer, " spin in the water...a diving-bell. This is sometimes left partly above water, but at others is entirely submersed, and is always attached to the objects near it by a great...

...about with a bubble of air attached to its abdomen, and spinning a most beautifully constructed web of white silk, in the form of half the shell of a pigeon's egg, or like a diving bell, with the mouth downwards, as its retreat, at the bottom of the water, and which is attached...

...submerged habitation and curious economy have been described, as follows, by different observers. " These spiders," says De Geer, " spin in the water a cell of strong, closely-woven white silk, in the form of a diving-bell or half a pigeon's egg. This is sometimes quite...

...attacked one another, as other spiders would have been apt to do {Clerck, Aranei Suecici, cap. viii.)." " These spiders," says De Geer, " spin in the water a cell of strong, clately ir»T'ti, white lilk in the form of half the shell of a pigeon's egg, or like a divinj hi-il....

...the Royal Zoological Gardens. Diving water spiders (Argyroneta aquaticd), prove very attractive. " These spiders," says De Geer, " spin in the water...form of half the shell of a pigeon's egg, or like the diving-bell. This is sometimes left partly above water, but at others it is entirely submersed,...