aricularia

Updated: May 10, 2025

The author who first gave popular currency to this story was Madame MERIAN, a zoological artist of the last century, many of whose drawings are still preserved in the Museums of St. Petersburg, Holland, and England. In a work on the Insects of Surinam, published in 1705 , she figured the Mygale aricularia, in the act of devouring a humming-bird.

Sir James Emerson Tennent - Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon