American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . of ^ • ? . , . ^s^ Astia forward or upward, keepnig his _ l)alps stifily outstretched, while -S^.the tip of his abdomen is bent to the ~- grOUnd. This position he commonly takes fig. 32. Position of male Astia vittata when when three or four inches away. While fP^^^J^ll ^- ^?e- •^ (After Peckhani.) he retains this attitude he keeps curving and waving his legs in a very curious manner. Frequently he raises only one of the legs of the first j
American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . of ^ • ? . , . ^s^ Astia forward or upward, keepnig his _ l)alps stifily outstretched, while -S^.the tip of his abdomen is bent to the ~- grOUnd. This position he commonly takes fig. 32. Position of male Astia vittata when when three or four inches away. While fP^^^J^ll ^- ^?e- •^ (After Peckhani.) he retains this attitude he keeps curving and waving his legs in a very curious manner. Frequently he raises only one of the legs of the first jiair, running all thetime from side to side. As he draws nearer tothe female, he lowers his body to the ground and,dropjiing his legs also, places the two anteriorpairs so that the tips touch in front (Fig. o2),Fio. 33. Male of icius mitratus ^^^^ proximal joints bciiig tumed almost at andancing before female. (After aiiglc to the body. Now lie glides in a scmicir-^™ cle before the female, sometimes advancing, some- times receding, until at last she accejits his addresses. The Niger form is much the more lively of the two, and whenever the.
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