Archive image from page 83 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 CUbiodiversity1121211-9810 Year: 1889 ( 82 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. it is rare. It seems to be less fond of human society, or else less able to stand the exigencies of civilization than Cophinaria. In outlying sections, where Nature has been less disturbed by men, it may probably be found more readily. It is suspended by means of silken guys to the leave
Archive image from page 83 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 CUbiodiversity1121211-9810 Year: 1889 ( 82 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. it is rare. It seems to be less fond of human society, or else less able to stand the exigencies of civilization than Cophinaria. In outlying sections, where Nature has been less disturbed by men, it may probably be found more readily. It is suspended by means of silken guys to the leaves and stalks of grass or low growing plants, which are bent over and also lashed together above the swinging egg nest in the maimer rep- resented at Fig. 47. Again, it may be found as at Fig. 48, swung in the midst of a retitelarian maze woven amidst the branches and leaves of a bush, or, as at Fig. 49, seated and suspended in the crotches of a wild meadow flower. The shape of her cocoon differs from Coph- inaria's in being hemispheroidal instead of pyri- form; in other words, it resembles the lower half of a spheroid. Across the wide top is stretched a circular piece of silk, like the head of an Indian drum. (Fig. 50.) The outer case is of stiff yellow silk, as is also the head or top; this part, in a cocoon now before me, is somewhat darker in color than the rest of tlie case. A marginal flap sur- rounds the head, and has various points to which guy lines were attached in site. (See Fig. 50.) The height and width of the cocoon are about tlie same—one-half inch. When the outer case is cut aside, as at Fig. 51, the interior is seen to con- sist, first, of a yellow flossy envelope, which is packed between the inner wall; and, second, an egg pad, which is not composed of purple silk as in Cophinaria, but of yellow silk plush loosely woven, and is three-eighths of an inch long. Within this are the eggs. Immediately above is the egg cover of white silk plush, which is commonly fl
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