. 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. 20 AMERICAN HPIDEKS AND TIIKIR SriNNIN(i\VORK. in species as the Epeiroids; in brilliancy and variety of colors they sur- pass both those and other families of spiders, and may even compared with the showy families of Coleoptera.^ Great as is the weight which this justly distinguished arachnologist car- ries toward the Attoids, I am inclined, in consideration of both instincts and structure, to place the Lycosids at the hea
. 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. 20 AMERICAN HPIDEKS AND TIIKIR SriNNIN(i\VORK. in species as the Epeiroids; in brilliancy and variety of colors they sur- pass both those and other families of spiders, and may even compared with the showy families of Coleoptera.^ Great as is the weight which this justly distinguished arachnologist car- ries toward the Attoids, I am inclined, in consideration of both instincts and structure, to place the Lycosids at the head of the order. Superior- rpj^^ organization of this family is, to say the least, but little Lvcosids "^^•^'"i'^i"' i^ ^^ ^^h to *^i^t of the Attoids; and in their spinning habits I have no hesitation in pronouncing them to be superior. Indeed, the Saltigrades are by no means remarkable for their spinning- work, in this respect scarcely equaling the Tubeweavers, perhaps the lowest of the si^iders. The Citigrades, however, exhibit most interesting industries; and especially in the personal care of their young, from the egg cocoon to the period when the spiderlings can shift for themselves, the Lycosids seem to me to show a higher order of instinct than tlie Attoids, certainly one as high. The whole subject, however, is one which in- cludes difficulties too numerous and serious to allow a full discussion in pages. The Orbweavers have their nearest rela- tions in the Lineweavers, whose snares of netted lines are familiar in the Orbweav-jmgiQg ^f q^^ houses, forming largely the domestic " ; In most cases the two tribes can be distinguished by a practiced eye by the general form. But they can Fig. 6. Citigrade Spider, Lycosa"scutulata ITlOSt Casily bc separated thus : The EpCl- Hent^. (Marx, del.) x 2. j.^^j^j^ j^j^^e a low forehead, not transversely impressed; from the margin of the clypeus to the middle front pair of eyes the distance
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