. American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . when tluspiderlings can shift for themselves, tin-Lycosids seem to me to show a higherorder of instinct than the Attoids, certainlyone as high. The whole subject, however,is one which in-cludes difticultiestoo numerous andserious to allow afull discussion inthese pages. The Orbweavers liave their nearest rela-tions in the Lineweavers, wliose snares ofnetted lines are familiar in theOrbweav-.^jjgigg ^f q^j. houses, forming largely the do
. American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . when tluspiderlings can shift for themselves, tin-Lycosids seem to me to show a higherorder of instinct than the Attoids, certainlyone as high. The whole subject, however,is one which in-cludes difticultiestoo numerous andserious to allow afull discussion inthese pages. The Orbweavers liave their nearest rela-tions in the Lineweavers, wliose snares ofnetted lines are familiar in theOrbweav-.^jjgigg ^f q^j. houses, forming largely the domestic cobwebs. Li most cases the two tribes can be distinguished by a jiracticed eye by the general form. But they can Fig. 6. Citip-ade Spider, Lyeosascutulata UlOSt easily bc Separated tllUS : The EpcV- (Marx, del.) X 2. roids havc a low forehead, not transversely impressed ; fium the margin of the clypeus to the middle front pair ofeyes the distance is less, or at any rate not greater than the distance be-tween the middle front and middle rear eyes. In the Itetitelaria, on thecontrary, the distance from the margin of the clypeus to the middle front.
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