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THE COMMON SPIDERS 



black stripe on each side and several pairs of black spots in the 

 middle, connected with a middle line. The legs are white, with 



a gray ring at the end and middle of 

 each joint. The spines are long on the 

 legs and palpi (fig. 347). The mandi- 

 ^49 bles have an oblique dark stripe and 

 several long hairs in front and a row 

 of teeth in front of the claw. The 

 epigynum (fig. 346) is large and ex- 

 tends obliquely backward away from 

 the abdomen and curves inward again 

 at the end. It lives all over the 

 northern part of this country and 

 Europe, under leaves and sometimes 

 on trees, where it is occasionally found 



Figs. 348, 349, 350. Linyphia in- 



signis. — 348, female enlarged on the bark without any web. 



twelve times. -uq, side of abdo- T . , . /TT , , \ . A 



ff , ™ Linyphia (Helophora) insignis. — An 



men of female. 350, epigynum. J* \ * / ® 



eighth of an inch long, as long as 

 socialis, but more slender. The cephalothorax and legs are 

 light yellow, and the abdomen gray or white, some- 

 times without markings and sometimes / 

 with gray stripes at the sides and two 

 or three pairs of gray 

 marks across the hinder 

 half (fig. 348). The cepha- 

 lothorax of the male is 

 twice as wide across the 

 middle as at the head. 

 The legs are without 

 markings. The epigynum 

 (fig. 350) is long and 

 straight, extending back- 

 ward close to the abdomen for half its length. The tibia 



Figs. 351, 352, 353. Linyphia concolor. — 351, end 

 of palpus of male. 352, side of epigynum. 353, 

 epigynum from below. 



