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gray, broadly banded with black; the black often prevails, so that 

 they appear black with narrow whitish bands. Young ones are pale 

 with narrow black bands on the legs. One adult female is tawny 

 brown on the thorax, with a pair of lateral crescent-shaped spots of 

 yellowish on the sides, besides the posterior spot ; abdomen grayish 

 brown ; large anterior legs tawny or rufous, with wide black bands ; 

 others with black and white bands. 



Cyclosa caudata (Hentz) = C. conica Emert. Figures 217, a, b. 



Color varied with gray, black, and white, with some yellow, in 

 variable proportions, some being light and others dark gray ; cepha- 

 lothorax often dark gray or black, legs white annulated with black 

 at the joints and usually between them ; abdomen dark below. 



Figure 218. — Silvery Spider (Argyroepeira hortorum) ; a, dorsal view of male ; 

 b, dorsal view of female, x 2 ; c, male palpi ; much enlarged ; after Emerton. 



Length 5 to 6 mm . The hump on the abdomen of the female is varia- 

 ble in size, and is scarcely noticeable in the smaller male. 



Its habits in Bermuda are the same as described by Emerton for it 

 in New England : 



"This species seems to live all the time in the web. Across the 

 web there is usually a line of dead insects and other rubbish fastened 

 together with a quantity of loose web in which the cocoons are also 

 concealed. The spider standing in the middle of this band, where it 

 crosses the center of the web, looks like part of the rubbish." 



