y 



Superfamily Argiopoidea 



is a little darker than the abdomen. There is on the abdomen 



a faintly indicated, median, longitudinal band. 



The guide of the epigynum is a large nearly circular plate 



which nearly fills the cavity of the epigynum (Fig. 648). On 



the outer face of the palpus of the male there is a slender, curved 



apophysis extending from the 

 tip of the tibia toward the 

 cymbium, and a slightly larger 

 pointed apophysis extending 

 backward from the cymbium 

 (Fig. 649). 



This is a common and 

 very widely distributed spe- 

 cies, occurring both in the 



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^'-3HBssaa&)s 



Fig. 648. 



EPIGYNUM OF CHIRACANTHIUM 



INCLUSUM 



Fig. 649. OUTER FACE OF TIBIA 

 OF CHIRACANTHIUM INCLUSUM 



Fig. 650. NEST OF CHIRACANTHIUM 

 INCLUSUM 



North and in the South. Hentz, who first described it, states 

 that "This spider was always found in tubes of white silk, the 

 female watching her cocoon, which is covered with a very thin 

 coat of silk; the eggs are loose and not glued together. It 

 probably moves out only at night, as its pale colour indicates. 

 The young are deeper in colour even than the mother." 



On one occasion (this was on the edge of the Everglades, 



570 



