Besides, it is made anywhere, at the first spot that offers.

The expert slayers employ methods of the highest precision: they give a stab in the neck, or under the throat; they wound the cervical nerve-centres, the seat of energy.

The paralysers, those accomplished anatomists, poison the motor nerve-centres, of which they know the number and position.

The Epeira possesses none of this fearsome knowledge.

She inserts her fangs at random, as the Bee does her sting.