. American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . ns. Apt., ii., page 211. Dr. Thorell has little doubtthat Ilentzs species T. grallator is identical with Walckenaers T. elongatii. See Aranea?of Colorado, Bulletin T^. S. Geolog. Surv., 1877, page 479. 158 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. mill races. I recall one such site at Bellwood in the Allegheny Mcmntains,where very many Stilt spiders were thus located, and had found it soadmirable a feeding ground that they had grown to l
. American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . ns. Apt., ii., page 211. Dr. Thorell has little doubtthat Ilentzs species T. grallator is identical with Walckenaers T. elongatii. See Aranea?of Colorado, Bulletin T^. S. Geolog. Surv., 1877, page 479. 158 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. mill races. I recall one such site at Bellwood in the Allegheny Mcmntains,where very many Stilt spiders were thus located, and had found it soadmirable a feeding ground that they had grown to large of the orbs were fourteen inches in diameter. (Fig. 150.) With this fondness for the water are associated some most interestinghabits which especially adajit the Stilt spider for its favorite site. One of these was observed in individuals of the Bellwood colony aboveWalkmg mentioned. The webs were stretched between boards laid on-jp. narrow beams as a gangway across the mill race near the sluice gate, and also from these boards to the sides of the race studying them I was often compelled to disturl) the spiders. They. 150. The stilt spiders web beneath logs. ran from the centre of their large orbs and took shelter on the sides ofthe cross beams or underneath the boards. If still further disturbed, theywould sometimes drop by a dragline from the lower surface of the plankand hang with their legs stretched out straight, fore and aft, in the charac-teristic position already described as assumed by them when resting along abranch or other surface. In this posture they woidtl hang motionless forsonic time. (See Fig. 151, left hand of cut.) On one occasion, while attempting to seize one of these individuals,she dropped downward suddenly for several feet. I was not surprised atthis motion, for it is the one resorted to by alarmed Orljweavers when HORIZONTAL SNAKES AND DOMED ORBS. 159 they precipitate themselves from their snares to the ground. I prep
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