ORANGE ARGIOPE 



One cannot know all this rare handiwork without 

 wondering by what delicate machinery has it been 

 done. Delicate indeed; and ingenious, and beautifully 

 wrought beyond one's best powers to describe. There 

 are few things in nature so well fitted to awaken admi- 

 ration as the vital mechanism by which a spider's spin- 

 ning work is made. To dissect its various parts from 

 an aranead corpus and mount them for study and ex- 

 hibition is not difficult for one who has some skill 

 with the microscope. The Hmitations of this book 

 will not allow more than a general description here. 



EGG-COCOON OF ORANGE ARGIOPE 



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