. 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. Spiders. COLOR AND THE COLOR SKNSE. 339 in a domicile of rolled leaves, shrinking away into cavities and holes of bark, in angles of walls, and like positions, occupying at times a well made leafy tent, after the manner of Insularis and Trifolium, and only ConTrr-^ occupying its snare during the night. It is one of the rarest dictions. *''"'g** ^° ^'^'^ "â Furrow spider, unless it be quite young, sus- pended upon its orb, tra
. 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. Spiders. COLOR AND THE COLOR SKNSE. 339 in a domicile of rolled leaves, shrinking away into cavities and holes of bark, in angles of walls, and like positions, occupying at times a well made leafy tent, after the manner of Insularis and Trifolium, and only ConTrr-^ occupying its snare during the night. It is one of the rarest dictions. *''"'g** ^° ^'^'^ "â Furrow spider, unless it be quite young, sus- pended upon its orb, trai)ping Hies, in daytime. Notwithstand- ing its seeming protective color, and the additional protection of its secret- ive habits, it is mercilessly pursued, in the vicinity of Philadelphia, by the steel blue wasp, which stores numbers in its clay cells. Epeira domiciliorum and cinerea are also spiders of rather inconspicuous colors, the last named particularly so, and both of them screen themselves in tents, though the Domicile spider at least not as habitually as some others. The Labyrinth spider and Epeira triaranea are among the most strongly protected of our fauna by their industry, having, besides their orbs and thick retitelarian Domicile, snare, a dome shaped silk- ^^th^ en tent as a domicile. In Orchard '^'^'^i^ion, Labyrinthea roofs. Spiders, her tent with a dry leaf, or uses it as a shelter for her body. These spiders are strongly marked as to their patterns, and are . . 1 , â , , , Pig- SOS- Leaf nest of Epeira. not uiconspicuously colored, but do not have the bright hues which characterize Argiope,'Epeira insulatis, and some others. The Orchard spider is one of the most brilliantly colored of our indig- enous species, although its hues harmonize well, particularly its green and yellow, with its leafy surroundings. It rests beneath its horizontal orb, where it is abundantly exposed to attack from above, but has straggling, pyramidal retitelarian lines beneath it,
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