American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . Fig. 50. Fig. 51. Fig. 52. Fig. 50. Cocoon of Argiope argyraspis. X 2. Fig. 51. Interior, showingpadding, eggs, and the egg cover. , Fig. 52. Side view of the egg Fig. 53. Cocoon of Argiope ar-genteola; front view. Naturalsize. and the nature of the interior furnishing, jet in tlie texture of the case and manner of suspension it is like the cocoonery of its congeners. In the example produced in my trying box the basal sheet is hung
American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . Fig. 50. Fig. 51. Fig. 52. Fig. 50. Cocoon of Argiope argyraspis. X 2. Fig. 51. Interior, showingpadding, eggs, and the egg cover. , Fig. 52. Side view of the egg Fig. 53. Cocoon of Argiope ar-genteola; front view. Naturalsize. and the nature of the interior furnishing, jet in tlie texture of the case and manner of suspension it is like the cocoonery of its congeners. In the example produced in my trying box the basal sheet is hung vertically. If it were suspended hor-izontally, with the egg case downward (Fig. 54), it would closely resemble an Argyraspis cocoon. Mrs. Eigenmann tells me that Argenteola makes more than one cocoon. A specimen which had spun a web ill her sitting room placed a cocoon upon it somewhat in the posi-tion observed by myself, as above described; butshortly after (the time is not sj^ecified) a secondcocoon was formed u]ion the web about two inchesbelow the first one. A few dajs previous to thiscocooning the spider neglected to eat, and paidno attention to the flies placed upon her discoverer had concluded that the creatures mission was ended and death would soon ensue, but was surprised to find
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