Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . ^ many physicians.(Hentz.) Fig. 628 (enlarged) represents T. aMca, a Europeanspecies. Filistata Is a closelv allied genus. F. hibernalis Ilentz. 650 ARANEINA. makes a tubular habitation of silk in crevices on old walls oirocks, throwing out an irregular web which is spread on thewall or stone around the aperture. ... In walking it usesthe palpi like feet, and these organs are very long, particularlyin the male. According to Hentz it is found in So
Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . ^ many physicians.(Hentz.) Fig. 628 (enlarged) represents T. aMca, a Europeanspecies. Filistata Is a closelv allied genus. F. hibernalis Ilentz. 650 ARANEINA. makes a tubular habitation of silk in crevices on old walls oirocks, throwing out an irregular web which is spread on thewall or stone around the aperture. ... In walking it usesthe palpi like feet, and these organs are very long, particularlyin the male. According to Hentz it is found in South Caro-lina and Alabama. The two genera Pholcus and Theridion belong to Latreillesgroup, Inaiquitelai, comprising those forms in which thefirst pair of limbs are usually the longest. In Pliolcus the legsare very long and slender. According to Hentz the speciesare *•sedentar}^, making in dark corners a Aery loose web ofslender threads, crossed in all directions. The eggs are col-lected together without a silk covering, which the mother car-ries with her cheliceres (maxillary palpi). This genus bythe extreme length of its legs resembles Phalangium. Thespecies belonging to it may be found in apartments seldomvisited, particularly churches and caves. They shake theirbody when threaten
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