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I conclude, looking to the future, that for terrestrial productions a large continental area, which will probably undergo many oscillations of level, and which consequently will exist for long periods in a broken condition, will be the most favourable for the production of many new forms of life, likely to endure long and to spread widely.

Mere chance, as we may call it, might cause one variety to differ in some character from its parents, and the offspring of this variety again to differ from its parent in the very same character and in a greater degree; but this alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species and species of the same genus.

During our stay at Brazil I made a large collection of insects.

I was much interested one day by watching a deadly contest between a Pepsis and a large spider of the genus Lycosa.

A large Epeira of the same division with Epeira tuberculata and conica is extremely common, especially in dry situations.

It is well known that most of the British spiders, when a large insect is caught in their webs, endeavour to cut the lines and liberate their prey, to save their nets from being entirely spoiled.

Fe Bajada, many large black spiders, with ruby-coloured marks on their backs, having gregarious habits.