Superfamily Argiopoldea 



seaport towns, being transported in trading vessels. Its chief 

 food is cockroaches. Within our territory, it is at home only in 

 the far South; but it is very often found in fruit stores in the 

 North, where it is brought in bunches of bananas. 



The female makes a flat, cushion-like egg-sac. The specimens 

 before me are slightly tinged with pink. The egg-sac is three 

 fourths inch wide, but only about one fourth inch thick. It is 

 carried by the female beneath her body (Fig. 624) in a way similar 



Fig. 624. HETEROPODA VENATORIA CARRYING HER EGG-SAC 



to that of the nursery-web weavers (Pisauridae). The spiderlings 

 emerge through a slit made in the margin of the egg-sac. 



Genus OLIOS (O'li-os) 



This is a very large genus, including 120 described species, 

 which are distributed in all tropical and subtropical regions. 

 Two species occur in the southwestern portions of the United 

 States. 



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