. The common spiders of the United States. Spiders -- United States. 192 THE COMMON SPIDERS herself. This spider matures late in the autumn or early in the summer, and makes large, loose, and transparent cocoons, hung near the webs. Argyroepeira hortorum. — This is a green and silver-white spider, with slender legs and a long abdomen resembling Tetragnatha. The body of the female is about a quarter of an inch long, the abdo- men twice as long as wide, and blunt at both ends (fig. 447). The first pair of legs are twice as long as the body, the second a fourth shorter (fig. 446). The legs are br
. The common spiders of the United States. Spiders -- United States. 192 THE COMMON SPIDERS herself. This spider matures late in the autumn or early in the summer, and makes large, loose, and transparent cocoons, hung near the webs. Argyroepeira hortorum. — This is a green and silver-white spider, with slender legs and a long abdomen resembling Tetragnatha. The body of the female is about a quarter of an inch long, the abdo- men twice as long as wide, and blunt at both ends (fig. 447). The first pair of legs are twice as long as the body, the second a fourth shorter (fig. 446). The legs are bright green, darker toward the ends. The cephalothorax is green, with a darker stripe in the middle and one on each side. The upper part of the abdomen is silver white, with a dark line through the middle, giving off four pairs of branches at the sides. At the sides of the abdomen are yel- low stripes extending downward, and toward the hinder end two bright copper-red spots. The colors of the under side are as bright as those. Fig. 448. Argiope riparia in the middle of the web. Natural Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Emerton, J. H. (James Henry), 1847-1930. Boston, London, Ginn & Company
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