. American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . t such spiders asthe Laterigrades, that never (or but rarely) use any sort of snare or shelter,resort to a tubular cell for the protection of their eggsand young, and dwell within it themselves during thehatching season. (Fig. 338.) So, also, Ly-Lateri- cosids, which habitually wander in the opengrades j^^ pursuit of prey, when the time for co-Lycosids. nooning comes make a burrow or nest inthe ground or beneath a rock, which theysilk 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 . t such spiders asthe Laterigrades, that never (or but rarely) use any sort of snare or shelter,resort to a tubular cell for the protection of their eggsand young, and dwell within it themselves during thehatching season. (Fig. 338.) So, also, Ly-Lateri- cosids, which habitually wander in the opengrades j^^ pursuit of prey, when the time for co-Lycosids. nooning comes make a burrow or nest inthe ground or beneath a rock, which theysilk line and use as a domicile. Thus, also, Dolo-medes, which is persistently nestless and webless inordinary habits, is drawn by maternal instincts to spinamong the leaves, or in like situation, one of themost complete nests that can be found in the wholerange of aranead spinningwork. Having thus pursued the line of analogy fromthe Lineweaving to the Tubeweaving species, we mayreturn upon our course for a moment toAnalogy trace the analogies between the LineweavingBetween ^^^^ Orbweaving species. Already, in a pre-ceding chapter (Chapter VIIL), I have fully. Line- and Orb- iH^^strated the peculiar habit of certain Orb-weavers, weavers to combine with their typical or-bicular snare the typical retitelarian snareof the Lineweavers. Conspicuous examples of this are Epeira labyrin-thea, Epeira triaranea, and most of the species belonging to the genus Fig. 339. The cocooning nestof Dolomedes sexpunctatus. 348 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK.
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