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THE COMMON SPIDERS 



who looks for spiders. They are not easily frightened, and so 

 their habits can be more easily watched than those of many 

 larger kinds. The heads are high, arching up from the eyes to 

 the highest part opposite the first legs (fig. 476). The eyes are 



Fig. 471. Webs of Dictyna on the side of a house. The nests were in the groove 

 between the boards, and the webs radiated irregularly from them, crossing each 

 other in all directions so as to appear like parts of one web. 



higher and the front of the head is more nearly vertical than in 

 Amaurobius (fig. 489). The head is about half as wide as the 

 thorax and distinctly marked off from it and usually lighter 

 colored. The abdomen is sometimes marked with light yellow 

 on a gray ground, as in Amaurobius, or with a light middle 



