. American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . ne of these spiders. Hyp-tiotes hung to her trapline by the two fore feet, which were stretched outquite at length from either side, as represented in Fig. 184. Her jaws andpalpi appeared to me (although I could not quite make this out) to besujiported upon the trajjline. At least they overreached that, line andgrasped the partly enswatlied insect, which lay over the line on the sideopjiosite the spiders body. The palps reaching upward
. American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . ne of these spiders. Hyp-tiotes hung to her trapline by the two fore feet, which were stretched outquite at length from either side, as represented in Fig. 184. Her jaws andpalpi appeared to me (although I could not quite make this out) to besujiported upon the trajjline. At least they overreached that, line andgrasped the partly enswatlied insect, which lay over the line on the sideopjiosite the spiders body. The palps reaching upward from one side andthe third feet reaching beneath from the other side revolved the insect, wliile the hind legs paid out thesilk and manipulated the swathingas represented at Fig. 184. The atti-tude was an extremely odd one, andhad the savor of that grotesquenesswhich seems to me alwaj^s to markthe apjaearance and behavior of thisaranead. When the fly was sufficiently secured it was carried back to the trap-line, whereupon Hyptiotes rolled herself over beneath her line in the ordi-nary posture, laid hold of the trapline by the two hind pairs of legs, and. Fifi. 184. The Triangle spider swathing a fly. 192 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. gathered up between them the ordinary coil of silk thread. Then shest ret el led foiward the two fore legs upon one side of her body and graspedthe traplinc just in front of her face, and bent the other two fore pairs oflegs around toward the l)all within which the insect was swathed andwhich was held well elevated within the mouth. The two bent fore legsevidently assisted in manipulating the food while the spider made a seemed as odd a posture as that assumed during the swathing of thefly. (See Fig. 185.) When the snare has been sprung and the spider wishes to tighten it,she does so by apparently first drawing upon the trapline with the forefeet, accomplishing the movement after the manner of Epeiroids^^® °^ by placing one c
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