American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . general identification. The species, as I npon tops of grass. (From ^ -*? Nature.) remembered it, seemed much like our American Cluliiona pallens, or the Eng-lish Clubiona hollosericea. The drawings (Fig. 158) were madefrom specimens which I brought home, and upon careful ex-amination prove beyond doubt to be the home nest of a spi-der, woven upon heads of a grass somewhat resembling maize,probably Leersia oryzoides Swz., or Eice Cut-grass.
American spiders and their spinningworkA natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . general identification. The species, as I npon tops of grass. (From ^ -*? Nature.) remembered it, seemed much like our American Cluliiona pallens, or the Eng-lish Clubiona hollosericea. The drawings (Fig. 158) were madefrom specimens which I brought home, and upon careful ex-amination prove beyond doubt to be the home nest of a spi-der, woven upon heads of a grass somewhat resembling maize,probably Leersia oryzoides Swz., or Eice Cut-grass. When cutopen, a hollow sphere of white silk is disclosed, which is the dainty cellin which the aranead lived. A veritable fairy palace! Among the BritishGlubionidse, as described by Blackwall and Staveley, I can onlj find onespecies, Clubiona erratica, whose habits would suggest such a nest as cocoon of this species is white and nearly round. Tlie mother placesit in a nest, around which slie forms a guard by binding together thebranches of firs or other plants in the midst of wliich she is placed. Sheremains in the nest with her young.^. Apteres, Volume II., page 14. - Staveley, British Spiders, page 110. GENERAL COCOONING HABITS OF SPIDERS. 133 This species, however, as describerl by the English authors, does notcorrespond with my recollection of the inhaV)itant of the pretty nest whichI liave noticed. It is possible that my memory may be at fault,J-. , and that this eocooning tent was prepared by the female of Clu- biona erratica. American Drassids, as we have seen, make simi-lar spherical nests, but I know none that thus hangs them to foliage. The substantial agreement in eocooning habit between the Drassids ofAmerica and those of Europe may further be seen by comparing the fol-lowing descriptions of English species. The female of Drassus ater con-structs a large white cell of close texture, usually in a hole in the eartli orunder a stone. Within this, in the month
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