American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . ched within the swingingegg bag, and who had doulit-less issued therefrom withinthe last week or ten da^s. Atleast, they were so well grownthat they might have been ofthat age. The cocoon was so evi-dently of tlie Lycosid charac-ter that I was for a, momentperplexed to iind it in sucha position. But, rememljeringthe habit of Dolomedes, I in-ferred that this may have beentlie cocoon nest of one of thelarge Dolomede spiders tlintfrequent the
American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . ched within the swingingegg bag, and who had doulit-less issued therefrom withinthe last week or ten da^s. Atleast, they were so well grownthat they might have been ofthat age. The cocoon was so evi-dently of tlie Lycosid charac-ter that I was for a, momentperplexed to iind it in sucha position. But, rememljeringthe habit of Dolomedes, I in-ferred that this may have beentlie cocoon nest of one of thelarge Dolomede spiders tlintfrequent the l>orders of ouvAmerican lakes and other wa-ters. I ca[)tured some of theyoung spiders, with some diifi-culty however, for they wereold and active enough to scamper away upon tlie least agitalion of thesnare. An examination showed that they were young Dolomedes, proba-bly Dolomedes tenebrosus, a spiiler that attains great size under favor-able circumstances. No doubt, the mother had carried her cocoon alongthe shore, hiding among rocks or underneath the platform of the boatlanding, until Nature prompted her to the last action characteristic of her. 263. View of Dolomede cocoon in site, and i):irt of tliebrood hanging to the supporting lines. Proceedings .\c;i(l. Nat. Sci., Pliila., 1SS4, pafie IIJS, How Lycosa fabricates licr round 242 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWOKK. species. Thereupon she swung it within a tented maze as described andfigured, and probably set herself to watch in some convenient , however, had disappeared when the naturalist came upon the scene,and may have perished or returned to her life occupation of capturinginsects upon the blue waters of Lake Saratoga. Fig. 262 shows the posi-tion of the snare and cocoon in site, and Fig. shows the snare enlarged,with the cocoon about natural size, and the joung clustered beneath. When one approaches the cocooning nest of Pucetia aurora he usually sees the mother hovering over her offspring, or
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