Archive image from page 124 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 ( GENERAL COCOONING HABITS OF SPIDERS. 123 Agalena labyrinthea of Europe resembles in its general habits the Aga- lena nsevia of America. According to Walckenaer the female makes her single cocoon in the month of August, which she encloses within Agalena huge purse like web full of soil and vegetable detritus. When laby- rinthea. the
Archive image from page 124 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 ( GENERAL COCOONING HABITS OF SPIDERS. 123 Agalena labyrinthea of Europe resembles in its general habits the Aga- lena nsevia of America. According to Walckenaer the female makes her single cocoon in the month of August, which she encloses within Agalena huge purse like web full of soil and vegetable detritus. When laby- rinthea. the web is removed, the cocoon is seen to be about the size of the end of one's thumb, and woven of a fine silken tissue enveloped by clods of earth. Next to these is another envelope of silk, and then, finally, particles of soil so strongly adhering to the cocoon that they cannot well be separated. When tlie cocoon is opened, it is found to be formed of a thick, tough web. On the exterior it is beautifully white and perfectly polished. It contains as high as one hundred and thirty-four eggs of a greenish yellow color. The well known cellar spider, Tcgcnaria derhamii,' which is widely Fio. 130. Snare of Tegenaria derhamii in a cellar window, with three cocoons suspended thereto. Fia. 131. One cocoon, natural size. distributed over both hemispheres, conceals her eggs within a flattened ball or hemisphere of soft silk, somewhere in the neighborhood . of her snare. Sometimes this is suspended by threads to the snare itself (see Vol. I., page 239, Fig. 221), or again is attached directly to it, and the envelope interwoven with the fibre of the web, so that it has much the appearance of a rounded button upon a coat. Fig. 130 ' Walckenaer, Aptfires, Vol. II., page 22. I have supposed that the Medicinal spider of Hentz, Tegenaria medicinalis, is identi- cal with this species, and have so used tlic name in Vol. I. Mr. Emerton, however, in a recent paper, declares Ilentz's Tegenaria m
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