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found it abundant among the mountain pines of Central Pennsylvania, 

 as well as among the flat, sandy, pine barrens of New Jersey, and in 

 mj^ c5-f P"^*^ groves on the seashore at Ipswich Bay, Massachusetts. But 

 I have frequently seen it in other positions, among shrubs and 

 evergreens on the lawns of country residences ; in groves of deciduous trees 

 in Connecticut; in the underbrush of Woodland Cemetery, Philadelphia; 

 on the banks of the Schuy^lkill, and in shady ravines in Fairmount Park. 

 Mrs. Mary Treat found it in New Jersey dwelling among flowering peas, 

 having its snare attached to the dry sticks upon which the vines were sup- 



Fig. 169. The snare of a Triangle spider, spun on a dry bush by a New England stone fence. 



One-half natural size. 



ported. While Hj^ptiotes thus shows a disposition to domicile on any 

 sort of bushes or foliage, its favorite location may be said to be groves 



of pine. In this respect it corresponds with its European con- 

 N t S't g^ii*?!"' Hyptiotes paradoxus, which Professor Thorell found in 



the neighborhood of Stockholm during July, August, and Sep- 

 tember, principally in woods of trees of the fir kind, especially in pine 

 woods. 



Our Triangle spider, like Paradoxus, seems to choose most freely the 

 dry bare branches of the pine or other trees ; but this is by no means a 



