Category: Science - Biology
There are few books on the American spiders, and these are either large and expensive works or else special papers published by scientific societies, and so little known to the public. Since publishing my papers on the New England and Canadian spiders in the _Transactions of t...
There are few books on the American spiders, and these are either large and expensive works or else special papers published by scientific societies, and so little known to the...
2. Part 2In the following pages a general description is given of each family, followed by descriptions of the species belonging to it, with a figure of each species placed as near as po...
3. Part 3$Anyphæna saltabunda.$--A pale short spider, with long and slender legs (fig. 46). The body is an eighth to a sixth of an inch long. The abdomen is oval, two-thirds as wide as l...
4. Part 4$Xysticus stomachosus.$--A middle-sized and light-colored species, with gray markings on a light ground, the markings most distinct on the hinder legs and abdomen. The middle of...
5. Part 5Mr. Peckham says that when the male approaches the female he lifts his abdomen into an almost vertical position so that the red color shows from in front. Then he rises on the t...
6. Part 6I have found this spider common on sand grass, where nothing else grows, and the young lying lengthwise on the leaves could hardly be seen. They mature in the middle of the summ...
7. Part 7$Pardosa albomaculata$ or $greenlandica.$--This species resembles _lapidicina_ (fig. 186), but is a little larger and not quite as long legged. It has longer hairs and is marked...
8. Part 8$Tegenaria (Cælotes) medicinalis.$--A large gray spider living in the woods, among rocks, in hollow trees, and under loose bark. It is half an inch long, with the legs of the fe...
9. Part 9$Steatoda marmorata.$--About a quarter of an inch long. The cephalothorax and legs yellowish brown. Cephalothorax smooth, with a few hairs. Legs covered with fine hair. The abdo...
10. Part 10The web of _L. marginata_ (fig. 318) is in the form of a dome four or five inches in diameter, hung between rocks and plants, seldom much concealed by leaves. The threads are fi...
11. Part 11Most of the common species belong to the genus Epeira and its allies, having rounded abdomens and stout legs, some of them with humps and spines and peculiar angular forms of th...
12. Part 12$Epeira trifolium.$--This is one of the largest species of the family, measuring from half to three-quarters of an inch long, with a large round abdomen, usually of a purplish b...
13. Part 13These are small spiders, with the abdomen extended back half its length beyond the spinnerets, brightly colored, flattened above, and furnished with several pairs of pointed pro...
14. Part 14$Dictyna frondea.$--This resembles _volupis_ and is likely to be mistaken for it. It is a little smaller, not over a tenth of an inch long, and there is less difference between...