American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . in warm situations. It is described as slow and deliberate in its motions, displaying somewhat of the action of a gnat in lifting ^°:^^ and iioising its leg in the air when walking. The whole char- TJilOl ctClCci. /> 1 acter of the aranead is mild and quiet. The poison fangs areso feeble as to be of but little use in seizing its prey, which office is chieflyperformed by the maxillte. When taken, Scytodes offers no resistance andattemp
American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . in warm situations. It is described as slow and deliberate in its motions, displaying somewhat of the action of a gnat in lifting ^°:^^ and iioising its leg in the air when walking. The whole char- TJilOl ctClCci. /> 1 acter of the aranead is mild and quiet. The poison fangs areso feeble as to be of but little use in seizing its prey, which office is chieflyperformed by the maxillte. When taken, Scytodes offers no resistance andattempts no flight, but, feigning death, resigns itself quietly to its fate.^ This tribe embraces the singular genus Walckenaera, some of whosespecies have the ejes jilaced upoia little turret like elevations of the ceph-alothorax. Their habits have not been carefully studied, andtheir cocoons are little known. One Eiuopean species, Walcke-naera acuminata, makes a cocoon Hat on one side, rounded on theother, about one-third inch in diameter, and comiiosed of slightly wovenwhite silk. It is found in autumn on the unilcr surface of stones and
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