. American spiders and their spinning work. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits. Spiders. 50 AMKRICAN SPIDKRS AND THEIR SPINNINQWORK. accuracy of the early observation made by Clerck is tlius abundantly con- firmed/ The attitude of Lycosa is represented in Fig. 24, which has been drawn from Nature for this work by Mr. Emerton. Among the Attidae, De Geer has described the pairing of Epiblcmum scenicum (Attus scenicus), which occurred upon a wall. The male mounted upon the body of the female, passing over her head tow
. American spiders and their spinning work. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits. Spiders. 50 AMKRICAN SPIDKRS AND THEIR SPINNINQWORK. accuracy of the early observation made by Clerck is tlius abundantly con- firmed/ The attitude of Lycosa is represented in Fig. 24, which has been drawn from Nature for this work by Mr. Emerton. Among the Attidae, De Geer has described the pairing of Epiblcmum scenicum (Attus scenicus), which occurred upon a wall. The male mounted upon the body of the female, passing over her head towards her At^d^^ °^abdomen, under which he advanced one of his palps. lie gently ^ *â raised the abdomen by upward pressure of his legs, and then ap- plied the extremity of his palp to the vulva. An instant afterward the two spiders separated and removed a little distance from one another. The male did not wait long before again approaching, and he repeated many times the action above described. The female did not offer the slightest opposition, but, on the contrary, seemed to greatly enjoy the act.^ IV. The mating of the Attoids, as told in the delightful pages of Mr. and Mrs. Peckham's Observations on Sexual Selection in Spiders, presents one of the most important chapters in the life history of araneads. It is a strange and interesting story, a romance of natural history as fascinating as any love story of modern fiction. Tliese accom- plished arachnologists, who have Male of Lycosa saccata embracing the female. carried OU all their studicS tO- From Nature. (Drawn by Emerton.) ^^y^^^,^ j^^^^^ ^.^^^^ ^^^^..^j ^^^^^_ tion to the Saltigrades, and they were led into the study of the courtship of these interesting creatures by a desire to solve some of the current problems in natural and sexual selection. Independent of this, the facts recorded are extremely valuable. The first group of observations uncovered the habit of the males to exliibit themselves before the females in
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