. The biology of spiders. Spiders; Insects. 202 THE BIOLOGY OF SPIDERS black patches. When a male jumping-spider approaches a female, he seems to recognise her by sight. He then per- forms a kind of dance before her. He raises his front legs and waves them about, or he holds out the adorned legs of one side and walks round in a circle, or he raises his abdomen into the air. An example may be quoted to give an idea of the complexity of the dance with some species. The classical instance, that of the species Saitis pulex, wh ch circled before its mate in times, has been quoted so often in zoolog
. The biology of spiders. Spiders; Insects. 202 THE BIOLOGY OF SPIDERS black patches. When a male jumping-spider approaches a female, he seems to recognise her by sight. He then per- forms a kind of dance before her. He raises his front legs and waves them about, or he holds out the adorned legs of one side and walks round in a circle, or he raises his abdomen into the air. An example may be quoted to give an idea of the complexity of the dance with some species. The classical instance, that of the species Saitis pulex, wh ch circled before its mate in times, has been quoted so often in zoological literature, that another example, that of a species of Habrocestum, is chosen Fig. 78.—Courtship of Icius mitratus. After Peckham. " He begins to move from side to side, with his hand- some first legs pointed downward and somewhat outward, his palpi extended parallel with them and his third legs raised above the first and second, in such a way as to show the apophyses on the patellae. Frequently, in these pre- liminary movements, he bends the ends of the legs inward, so as to put them into the form of a diamond, meanwhile moving the palpi rapidly up and down. As he approaches the female, he raises the first pair of legs swaying them backward and forward, still keeping the third pair well up, seeming as eager to display them as the first pair. When. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Savory, Theodore Horace, 1896-. London : Sidgwick & Jackson
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