Abstract
THE ‘black widow’ has for long been the popular name of the American spider Latrodectus mactans, notorious above all others for the reputed virulence of its bite. In 1934 there was a remarkable increase in the numbers of the species, and the recorded cases of spider-bite, or arachnidism, so alarmingly multiplied that the ‘black widow’ acquired a ‘news value’ in the popular Press. Messrs. Thorp and Woodson then undertook a comprehensive study of this spider, the results of which are contained in this book.
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