WEAVERS OP ROUND WEBS. 



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southwest as Texas. It abounds along the Atlantic seaboard from Maine 

 southward at least to Delaware and Maryland ; and Hentz found it in Ala- 

 bama ; he named it from the scalloped or furrow like markings 

 on the dorsum of the abdomen. In ajipearance and habits it 

 resembles Epeira coruuta of Europe, and is not improbably a 

 variety of that species.^ If this be so the species has a vast dis- 

 tribution, and retains its peculiarities in all countries, latitudes, and condi- 

 tions with undisturbed persistence. 



The 



Furrow 



Spider. 



Fig. 101. Typical orb of Epeira. Half tone engraving made from a photograph. 



None of our Orbweavers more habitually slums the light. She is rarely, 

 except when very young, found upon her snare during the day; but occu- 

 pies a neighboring crevice, tubular tent, or rolled leaf, concealed within 



1 1 have compared with the habits of E. cornuta aa described by Menge in his Prussian 

 Spiders. Tlie spinning, nesting, .inrl coconning and general lialiit,« of tlie two well agree. 



