Archive image from page 465 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 ( 456 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. tolai'iii!. I insert ii fac simile cop of the figure publislied by Professor Becclicr (Fig. 381), representing a dorsal view of the fossil, and (Fig. 382) a bare outline when viewed direetly in front. From the figure anil j)rofile it is seen that all the limbs of the spider are in nearly
Archive image from page 465 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 ( 456 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. tolai'iii!. I insert ii fac simile cop of the figure publislied by Professor Becclicr (Fig. 381), representing a dorsal view of the fossil, and (Fig. 382) a bare outline when viewed direetly in front. From the figure anil j)rofile it is seen that all the limbs of the spider are in nearly their natural posi- tion, having undergone but slight displacement and decay, while its per- fection indicates that it is not a shed skin which is i)reserved, but that tlie actual animal was entombed. It throws an interesting side light upon the life habits of this creature, to learn that in the same concretion which contains the fossil are fragments of the broad leaves of a rush like plant which, as Professor Beecher thinks, probably furnished a float by which the spider was carried out from land, so that its remains are found min- gled in the same bed with marine organisms. In this connection I may call attention to another fossil spider which has been supposed also to belong to the Territelaria). While visiting the British Museum of Natural History at South Kensington, London, in the summer of 1887, my attention was called to some fossil spiders by Dr. Henry Woodward, Keeper of the Geo- logical Department. Among these I observed one which seemed new to science, and closely related to the genus Atypus. After my return to America, Dr. Woodward sent me casts both in wax and plaster, from which a description of the species was made, and the name Eo- atypus woodwardii suggested.' The fossil is simply an impression in the shale, which, how- ever, is tolerably well preserved, but exhibits few features necessary to classification. The eyes are not defined, and nothing but a little r
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