Archive image from page 172 of American spiders and their spinning. American spiders and their spinning work. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits CUbiodiversity1121211-9742 Year: 1889 ( THE PEATHERFOOT SPIDER, ULOBORUS PLUMIPES. 173 Hentz observed the species on limestone rocks on the banks of Cyprus Creek, and in moist places in North Alabama. Its congener, U. mamme- atus, he found dwelling most frequently in cavities, among large logs, and in hollow trunks of trees. Emerton found Plumipes between loose stones or
Archive image from page 172 of American spiders and their spinning. American spiders and their spinning work. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits CUbiodiversity1121211-9742 Year: 1889 ( THE PEATHERFOOT SPIDER, ULOBORUS PLUMIPES. 173 Hentz observed the species on limestone rocks on the banks of Cyprus Creek, and in moist places in North Alabama. Its congener, U. mamme- atus, he found dwelling most frequently in cavities, among large logs, and in hollow trunks of trees. Emerton found Plumipes between loose stones or low bushes in New England. Mrs. Peckham almost invariably found this species building in dead branches, six out of seven being thus located.' She gives an apt abstract of its habits. In form and color it resembles a scrap of bark; its body is truncated and diversified with small humps, while its first legs are very uneven, bearing heavy fringes of hair on the tibia, and having the terminal joints slender. Its color is a soft wood Kui. 160. Orbweb of Uloborus, spun in the opening of a hollow stump. brown or gray, mottled with white. It has the habit of hanging motion- less in the web for hours at a time, swaying in the wind like an inani- mate object. The strands of its web are rough and inelastic, so that they are frequently broken, and this gives it the appearance of one of those dilapidated and deserted webs in which bits of M'indblown rubbish are frequently entangled. Baron Walckenaer says that the closely related European species, Ulo- borus Walckcnaerius Duges, generally spins its horizontal snare between the stems of rushes in dry and warm places, M'hich resembles that of Epeira in form, but of looser tissue. Hahn found the species in the ' Phillyra mammcata. ' Spiders of the United Stiites,' page 129. 2 ' Protective Resemblances in Spidere.' Occasional Papers of the Natural History So- ciety of Wisconsin, Vol. I., 1889, page 77. By George W. & Elizabeth G. Peckham.
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