American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . Fig. 177; also Vol. I., ) Within this a mass of in-tersecting lines is spun, uponwhich the cocoon is hung. Afterhatching the spiderlings occupythe temporary home thus provid-ed for them, and hang in clustersor individuals upon the intersecting lines. Dolomedes differs from Lycosa in the mode of deporting her cocoon,suspending it beneath the abdomen and sternum, so that it is surroundedby the legs. (Fig. 178.) When walking, the mothe
American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . Fig. 177; also Vol. I., ) Within this a mass of in-tersecting lines is spun, uponwhich the cocoon is hung. Afterhatching the spiderlings occupythe temporary home thus provid-ed for them, and hang in clustersor individuals upon the intersecting lines. Dolomedes differs from Lycosa in the mode of deporting her cocoon,suspending it beneath the abdomen and sternum, so that it is surroundedby the legs. (Fig. 178.) When walking, the mother Dolomede muststraighten out her legs as much as possible, and carry her body high.(Figs. 178, 179.) The cocooning habits of tlic English Dolomedes mira-bilis differ in no particular from those of our American species. She car-ries her cocoon, which is large, globular, and of a dull yellowish color,attached to her body during all licr hunting expeditions, until the timeappronc-hes for the hatching of the eggs. She then weaves a sheet ofclose, lino silk upon grasisos or the branches of bushes, forming a dome, ofwliicli liicsc suii|)lv tlie Fn:. 178. Dolomedes sexpunctatus carrying her cocoon. U GENERAL COCOONING HABITS OP SPIDERS. 147 Pucetiaaurora. Among the Gitigrades, Pucetia auiora has a special interest, botli from itsappearance and structure and from the peculiarity of its cocooning spider was received in collections sent me by Mr. W. , of San Bernardino, California. Numerous specimens ofyoung and old were subsequently sent by Mrs. Eigenmann andothers from the same locality. The genus Pucetia belongs to the familyOxyopoidai of the Citigrade spiders, to which it is doubtless relegated inspite of certain analogies with the Satigrades on the one hand and theLaterigrades (Philodrominte) on the other. ^ Mr. Wright describes thespecimens sent me as jumping spiders; and Hentz, who describes severalspecies under the generic name of Oxyopes, says that
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