. The common spiders of the United States. Spiders. 124 THE COMMON SPIDERS being only a quarter as large as the female. This spider makes its nest among loose stones, on plants, or in houses. Around its hiding place it spins a large funnel-shaped tent that widens into a flat or curved sheet of web, closer in texture toward the tube and more open toward the edges, spreading two or three feet over plants and stones. It is found all over the United States, as far north as Massachu- setts and New Hampshire and south through Florida, the West Indies, and South America, as far as Chile. It is everyw
. The common spiders of the United States. Spiders. 124 THE COMMON SPIDERS being only a quarter as large as the female. This spider makes its nest among loose stones, on plants, or in houses. Around its hiding place it spins a large funnel-shaped tent that widens into a flat or curved sheet of web, closer in texture toward the tube and more open toward the edges, spreading two or three feet over plants and stones. It is found all over the United States, as far north as Massachu- setts and New Hampshire and south through Florida, the West Indies, and South America, as far as Chile. It is everywhere feared as poisonous and dangerous, prob- ably on account of its large size and conspicuous colors, as there is no good reason for considering it more poisonous than other spiders. Argyrodes trigonum. — A little yel- low triangular spider, with a high, pointed abdomen (fig. 292). Large females measure an eighth of an inch from the head to the spin- nerets and nearly as much from Fig. 296. Web of Argyrodes trigonum , soinnercts to the tin of the between two maple leaves. In the ^'^'^ SpmnereiS LO LUe Lip VL UlC middle of the web are two egg cocoons abdomCll. ScCU frOm aboVC, the and above them the spider. , , , . Tin end of the abdomen is a little flat- tened and notched in the middle (fig. 293). In the female the part of the head around the eyes is slightly raised and the lower part of the front of the head carried forward a little beyond it (fig. 294). In the males there are two horns on the head, one between the eyes and one below them (fig. 295). The color is light yellow, sometimes with a metallic luster, as though gilded. On the back of the cephalothorax are three light brown stripes, and sometimes there are dark spots at the sides of the abdomen and over the spinnerets. The legs. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfect
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