Archive image from page 165 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 CUbiodiversity1121211-9742 Year: 1889 ( 166 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. The Arch itect. to preserve its perfect form. Perhaps he would rise from the study with a higher appreciation of the quaUty and character of despised Arachne. Nor would he find the creature herself unworthy of admiration as she hangs inverted within and just below the summit of the dome.
Archive image from page 165 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 CUbiodiversity1121211-9742 Year: 1889 ( 166 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. The Arch itect. to preserve its perfect form. Perhaps he would rise from the study with a higher appreciation of the quaUty and character of despised Arachne. Nor would he find the creature herself unworthy of admiration as she hangs inverted within and just below the summit of the dome. The term beautiful is rarely associated with individuals of her order, but it may properly be used in this case. There is a combination of crimson, various shades of green, yellow, snow white, and black colors, which might prevent the most fastidious lady from raising the cry of ' horrid spider!' against a creature bearing such delicate hues and dwelling in such a fairylike domicile. However, the main point of interest in the Basilica spider is neither its architectural skill nor its fair colors. Its chief importance to the arachnologist is that it seems to form a perfect connecting link between the orbweaving and lineweaving spiders, in the character- istic spinningwork of the two tribes. In order to perceive this statement it is necessary to recall what has been written in the last chapter about certain Orbweavers that make composite snares, as A Con- £qj. example, Epeira labyrinthea and E. triaranea. These species, it will be remembered, not only spin the typical orbweb of the tribe to which they belong, but combine therewith a mass of right lines intersecting one an- other in different planes and at various angles, the whole combination forming at once the home and snare of the animal. The maze is an exact retitelarian snare, as has already been shown, and will be readily recognized by any ordinary observer of the cobwebs, for the most part made by Theridioids, which form
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