. American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . Pig. 343. The snare of the Wall loving Dictyna,woven on a Philadelphia city Fig. 344. Orb like snare of Dictyna philoteichus, wovenagainst a wall. naturally produced by the .striding movement of a spider between twolines, swinging her abdomen backward and forward as she moves. In 350 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. some cases, as in the web of a species of Dictyna which abounds in Phila-delphia and vicinity, and everywhe
. American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . Pig. 343. The snare of the Wall loving Dictyna,woven on a Philadelphia city Fig. 344. Orb like snare of Dictyna philoteichus, wovenagainst a wall. naturally produced by the .striding movement of a spider between twolines, swinging her abdomen backward and forward as she moves. In 350 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. some cases, as in the web of a species of Dictyna which abounds in Phila-delphia and vicinity, and everywhere spins upon our walls and fences, thispeculiar snare takes upon it, in a rude way, the outlines (Fig. 343) and evenin greater detail the general form of an orb, as may be seen by consultingFig. 344. In other words, this wall loving spider starts from its little tubu-lar nesting place and drags its lines out to surrounding adjacent these lines it then extends its tlocculeut thread, carrying it down-ward to the circumference and backwards again towards the centre, andso back and forth, until, as we have said, the rude outline of an orbwebis formed. Now, it is of interest to know that among the Orbweavers we have two wel
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