. The common spiders of the United States. Spiders. THE EPEIRID^ 167 only a little longer than wide and is proportionally smaller than in instdaris and thaddeus. The legs are long and slender, the first pair being nearly twice as long as the body. The color is most commonly light yellow, with brown markings. Sometimes the abdomen is thickly spotted with red, especially toward the latter part of the summer, and domicilioruiu has usually gray and even black markings. The cephalothorax has three dark stripes not very sharply defined, and the legs have brown or gray rings at the ends of the joints
. The common spiders of the United States. Spiders. THE EPEIRID^ 167 only a little longer than wide and is proportionally smaller than in instdaris and thaddeus. The legs are long and slender, the first pair being nearly twice as long as the body. The color is most commonly light yellow, with brown markings. Sometimes the abdomen is thickly spotted with red, especially toward the latter part of the summer, and domicilioruiu has usually gray and even black markings. The cephalothorax has three dark stripes not very sharply defined, and the legs have brown or gray rings at the ends of the joints. The back of the abdomen has a row of light spots in the middle, sometimes united into a stripe, and on each side of this a row of dark spots nearly surrounded by lighter color. The sternum is bright yellow in the middle, and the under side of the abdomen has a dark center and two or three pairs of yellow spots. The males are usually smaller than the females, but resemble them in color and mark- ings. On the under side of each femur is a single row of long spines. The tibia of the second legs is curved more in the small than fk,. 396. Epeira in the large variety and has a row of strong F^^te^sis, enlarged o -' o tour times. spines on the inner side. The webs are made usually just before dark, and the spider stands in them more in the night than during the daytime. Sometimes they make a thread from the center of the web to the nest, but this is not a regular habit, as it is with iiisularis (fig- 397)- Very young spiders make proportionally larger nests, often on the ends of grasses, where their round webs are destroyed every day by the wind. Some of them mature as early as June, and others, especially of the domicilionnn variety, as late as August. Epeira pratensis. — This is the same size and color as Epeira trivittata, and lives, like that species, in grass and low Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enh
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