SILK SPIDERS, TUBE OR BAG WEAVERS. DRASSW.E. 



This family resembles short-legged /jvw/</? in shape. Some seem homeless, wandering about at 

 night time, others spin tubes or bags under stones, logs or curled-up leaves, which they seldom leave in 

 day time. Their wintering bag is made of several coats of the finest, whitest silk, and is beautifully soft 

 and warm. American Drassidce have never been well studied. About fifty kinds have been described in 

 European and American publications, some perhaps twice under different names. Hentz describes most 

 kinds under the names of Hcrfyllns and Cliibioita. Other writers divide the family into Drassida and 

 Clubionidee, of which the first contains the dark colored kinds which live on the ground, and the latter 

 the mostly light colored kinds which live on shrubs and plants. They are so nearly related that it seems 

 better to keep them in one family and to divide the same into sub-families. 



Upper row of eyes straight or curved upward, lower row curved downward, 



Both rows of eyes curved downward. 



eyes nearly equal in size ; middle eyes nearer to eac'n other than to 

 the outside eyes. (See Ci 



middle eyes nearer the outside eyes than to each other 

 outside eyes of lower row larger than the middle eyes 

 middle eyes larger than outside eyes of the lower row 

 upper middle eyes very small 



Upper row bent downward, lower row straight 



Upper row curved downward and lower row bent upward 



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/'r///i>nissii. 



Amaurobius. 



Miii'tina. 



Melanophora. 

 Drassus, 



Lucia. 



Clubioiia. 

 Anyphcena. 



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