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dead leaves in woods (fig. 246). It is a fifth to a quarter of an 

 inch long, with the longest legs one and one-half times as long 

 as the body. The spines of the third and fourth legs are long 

 and stout, and there are long fine hairs on all the legs and 

 the abdomen. The color is pale yellowish brown, lighter on the 

 abdomen, which has faint gray markings. The sexes are much 



Fig. 240. Web of Tegenaria medicinalis, with the front edge carried up 

 along the face of a rock. See diagram (fig. 239, d). 



alike, and both vary in size. The palpi of the males are very 

 large and conspicuous (figs. 248, 249). The patella is short and 

 wide, and the tibia is narrower at the end and wide toward the 

 base, where it has a short process on the outer side. On the 

 under side of the tibia is a long thin appendage of irregular shape 

 that is nearly as long as the tarsus. The tarsus itself is long 



