Archive image from page 94 of American spiders and their spinning. 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 CUbiodiversity1121211-9810 Year: 1889 ( MATERNAL INDUSTRY : COCOONS OF ORBWEAVERS. 93 is of a yellow color, and so slight as to show the loose mass of eggs within. (Fig. 70.) It appears to resemhle quite exactly the cocoon of its congeners in Africa and the West India Islands. Nephila q cxami)lc, the cocoon of Ncphila ni- Cocoons. \. , ,, ,,. . . J. gra, accordnig to Dr. V
Archive image from page 94 of American spiders and their spinning. 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 CUbiodiversity1121211-9810 Year: 1889 ( MATERNAL INDUSTRY : COCOONS OF ORBWEAVERS. 93 is of a yellow color, and so slight as to show the loose mass of eggs within. (Fig. 70.) It appears to resemhle quite exactly the cocoon of its congeners in Africa and the West India Islands. Nephila q cxami)lc, the cocoon of Ncphila ni- Cocoons. \. , ,, ,,. . . J. gra, accordnig to Dr. Vnison/ is oi a beautiful yellow color, and is attached to the hark of trees, or spun against the surface of some re- cess. Nephila maurata spins a large cocoon, of a heautiful orange yellow color. This is not attached to lier snare, but is woven against any adjacent recess, or in some shaded place near to her, al- though sometimes she goes quite a distance from her web to find a cocooning site. The orange colored egg sac is enclosed in a flossy envelope of a paler color. If we may credit the statement, or rather the illustration of Mr. Wood, the Nephilas of the West Indies, which are there known as the Tufted spider, spin a cocoon similar to that described, but suspended to the stalks of various plants, instead of being hung beneath leaves or woven against hard surfaces. The figure presented by Mr. Wood, and which is here reproduced, is said by the author to be made from specimens in the British Museum, although I do not remember to have seen these when examining the collections of spinningwork at Ken- sington several years ago. IV. I have several cocoons of our American Gasteracantha, two of which were sent from Southern California by Mrs. Eigcnmann. A third was woven by a living female sent from the same section; and a Gastera- {,,1, jg received from Dr. George Marx, of Washington. The latter is attached to the bark of a twig, upon which it is spun. It is a flossy button or
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