Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 106
e pointof interest was a brown earth-spider allied to thebig tropical My gale. I later found its body to beone inch long and one half inch wide. Its legshad a spread of three and one half inches. It was clear that the wasp had made the attack.The big spider stood nearly erect on its hindmostlegs,… … THE LIZARD i.SCELOPORUS UNDUI.ATUS) THAT JOINED INTHE FIGHT. they circled, attacked, and retreated. Once ortwice the spider almost reached the wasp by aquick leap, and again barely faced about in timeto escape the fatal thrust of the sting from therear. Not once did the spider endeavor to runaway.…
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