Identifier: introductiontozo00dave Title: Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools; Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty, 1866- Subjects: Zoology Publisher: New York, Macmillan company London, Macmillian and co., ltd. Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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Text Appearing Before Image: FIG. 92. — Liobunum dorsatum, one of the harvestmen. The long legs areapt to be thrown off in handling the living animal. The second left leg isaccordingly absent in this specimen. Nat. size. Photo, by W. H. C. P.

Text Appearing After Image: FIG. 93. — Psoroptes, the sheep scab, female. Right figure, dorsal view; left figure, ventral.Industry. Much enlarged. After Salmon, Bulletin 21, Bureau Animal THE SPIDER AND ITS ALLIES 95 man. Liolmnum dorsatum is a common grayish specieswith a darker dorsal band, which emits a clear fluid whenhandled (Fig. 92). The Areneina, or spiders, already considered. The Acarina,1 or mites and ticks, in which, as in spiders,the abdomen is unsegmented, but is fused with the cephalo-thorax. Mites have typically a round body. They exhibitgreat diversity of form and habits. All areterrestrial, excepting one group of aquaticmites, and are often of a bright red color(Atax). The free-living species prey onsmaller animals, as well as dead organicsubstances. Others are parasitic in animals ,. . • f p J.T 9 i FIG. 94. — Pal- or plants, living in fur or leathers/ and even Ien6) a sea_penetrating into the skin, as the small red spider. : 1.5. ,, , . ,, r. 0 ,, Photo, living jigger or c nigger or our

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