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pear-shaped cocoon hanging in grass or bushes, 

 Fig. 62. A stem of loose brown silk is first 

 made, and under this the eggs attached (at any 

 rate this had been done in one which had been 



Fig. 6i. 



Fig. 62. 



abandoned unfinished) ; then a cup-shaped 

 piece is made under the eggs ; the bunch of 

 loose silk is spun over all, and finally the paper- 

 like shell. 



ESCAPE FROM THE COCOON. 



These cocoons of Argiope are made late in 

 the summer, and the young stay in them till 

 the next season. Out of six hundred cocoons 



