. The common spiders of the United States. Spiders -- United States. 102 THE COMMON SPIDERS along the surface of the rock, held away from it a short dis- tance by threads fastened to projecting points on the stone (figs. 239, 240). This species is sometimes mistaken for the longer legged and more hairy Tegenaria derhamii (fig. 228), that makes similar webs in barns and cellars. Tegenaria (Caelotes) longitarsus.— Smaller than medicinalis; about two-fifths of an inch in length. The head is very wide, and the mandibles of the female more swelled in front than in medicinalis, and the eyes are smal
. The common spiders of the United States. Spiders -- United States. 102 THE COMMON SPIDERS along the surface of the rock, held away from it a short dis- tance by threads fastened to projecting points on the stone (figs. 239, 240). This species is sometimes mistaken for the longer legged and more hairy Tegenaria derhamii (fig. 228), that makes similar webs in barns and cellars. Tegenaria (Caelotes) longitarsus.— Smaller than medicinalis; about two-fifths of an inch in length. The head is very wide, and the mandibles of the female more swelled in front than in medicinalis, and the eyes are smaller and cover less than half the width of the head (figs. 244, 245). The cephalothorax is darker colored in front and does not have the two longitudinal stripes seen in medici- nalis (fig. 241). The legs are only faintly marked with gray in the middle of the joints. The abdomen is marked with gray, in a series of dark and light spots, as in other species, and of more fig. 239. sections of webs of regular shape than in medicinalis. The Tegenaria and Agalena. — . «, Agalena n^via; 6, com- epigynum is light colored, with a mid- mon form of Tegenaria der- dj baj. covered with hair and sK„htly hamn, with the edge lower J than the tube; c, Tegenaria, forked at the hinder end (fig. 242). The with the edge higher than the , ,. rr . , , r , tube; d, Tegenaria, with the male differs in the usual way from the edge carried up along the face female and has the palpi shorter than of a rock; e, Tegenaria, with the edge carried down as well medicinalis. The tarsus has a projec- asup' tion at the base that covers the tibia. The patella has a short process on the outer side that points directly forward (fig. 243). Tegenaria (Cicurina) complicata.—-A small spider, resembling the young of the larger species of Tegenaria, found usually under. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearanc
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