clytra

Updated: May 9, 2025

Layard found that the soft parts of the body had been eaten, nothing but the head, thorax, and clytra remaining. Nat. Hist. But, in addition to minor and ignoble prey, the Mygale rests under the imputation of seizing small birds and feasting on their blood.

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