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CHAPTER XIX. 



GENESIS OF SNARES. 



Spinningwork Relations — A Hypothetical Standpoint — Genesis of a Trapline— A Simple 

 Trail — Trail Telegraph— Foot Lines Commanding Snare — Acrosonia at Her Hub — 

 Utilizing Web Fragments — Stellate Spi<ler Trajiping with a Fragment — iMultiijlex 

 Traplines— Hyptiotes' Trajiline — Ray Spider's Traiiline — The Original Thread — Drag- 

 line— Trestlework of Theridiinn — Theridium's Parental Snare — Beautiful Snares of 

 Linyphia — Snare Among the Morning (ilories — From Sheet to Dome— From Dome 

 to Tube — Linyphia costata's Snare — Influence of Maternity — Cocooning Xest of Dolo- 

 medes — Cooperative Housekeeping — Origin of Orbwebs — Dictyna's Orb like Snare — 

 Orb weavers' Curled Spirals — The Ray Spider's Link— Viscid Lines of Dictyna and 

 Amaurobius — Are Theridium's Threads Viscid? — ^Vnother Starting Point — From 

 Tubeweaver to Lineweaver — Agalena and Theridium — Epeira and Theridium — Sec- 

 toral and Horizontal Orbs -Unit v of Industrial Habit 33(i-35(5 



