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slants upward into the labyrinth to the point where the spider is domi- 

 ciled. The domicile is a small, bell shaped, silken tent, which is usually 

 protected above by a withered leaf; or is simply a slight silken canopy 

 spun within or against the lower end of the leaf. In the cocooning 

 season this shelter tent is sometimes spun against the lowest one of the 



Fig. 115. Labyrinth spider's snare, to show the maze of intersecting lines above the orb. 



several cocoons which the spider habitually makes. (Fig. 114.) The retite- 

 larian snare or maze of netted lines, which happily suggested 

 The Laby- jjgj^^^.g speciiic name, labyrinthea, is situated above and to one 

 ^gg °^ side of the orb, which it somewhat overlaps. It is irregular in 

 shape, but often rudely pyramidal, sometimes making a bulk of 

 spinningwork from ten to twelve inches wide and high, and six to eight 

 inches deep. For example. Fig. 115, a snare spun in a fir tree measured 



