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females, and often differ from them in certain well-marked secondary sexual characters, such as the mandibular protuberance from which one of the See also:

COMMON

common See also:

ENGLISH

English spiders, Phalangium cornutum, takes its scientific name. The male is also furnished with a See also:

long and protrusible penis, and the See also:

FEMALE

female with an equally long and protrusible ovipositor. The sexes pair in the autumn, and the female, by means of her ovipositor, See also:

LAYS

lays her eggs in some cleft or hole in the See also:

SOIL

soil and leaves them to their See also:

FATE

fate. After breeding, the parents See also:

die with the autumn See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold; but the eggs retain their vitality through the See also:

winter and See also:

hatch with the warmth of See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring and early summer, the See also:

young gradually attaining maturity as the latter seasonprogresses. Hence the prevalence of adult individuals in the late summer and autumn, and at no other See also:

time of the See also:

YEAR

year. They are provided with a pair of glands, situated one on each See also:

side of the See also:

CARAPACE (a Fr. word, from the Span. carapacho, a shield or armour)

carapace, which secrete an evil-smelling fluid believed to be protective in nature. Harvest-men are very widely distributed and are especially abundant in temperate countries of the a, Ocular tubercle. d, Sheath of penis protruded. b, Mandible e, Penis.

c, See also:

LABRUM (Lat. for " lip ")

Labrum (upper See also:

LIP (a word common in various forms, to Teutonic languages, cf Ger. Lippe, Dan. laebe; Lat. labium is cognate)

lip). f, The glans. See also:

NORTHERN

northern hemisphere. They are also, however, common in See also:

India, where they are well known for their See also:

HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit of adhering together in See also:

GREAT

great masses, comparable to a swarm of bees, and of swaying gently backwards and forwards. The long legs of harvest-men serve them not only as See also:

ORGANS

organs of rapid locomotion, but also as props to raise the body well off the ground, thus enabling the animals to stalk unmolested from the midst of an See also:

army of raiding ants. (R. I.

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