ORANGE ARGIOPE 



complicated machinery the owner operates with utmost 

 skill, bringing into play now one part, and now another, 

 and again the whole with unfailing deftness and a 

 mastery complete. 



Once more let us visit our favorite hunting-grounds 

 in these open, fallow fields. September is mellowing 

 into October. That indescribable softness which marks 



ep thg- cy.g py.g ^P" 



DIAGRAMATIC VIEW OF THE LOCATION OF THE SPINNING ORGANS 

 IN {aR(UOPE AURANTIUil) ORANGE ARGIOPE 



Spn, spinnerets; py.g, pyriform glands; cy.g, cylindrical glands; 



tr. g, tree -form glands; ep, epigynuni through which the 



eggs are deposited; gl, gills; E, eggs; al:c, alimentary 



canal; a, anus. The figure is a composite one. 



these halcyon days overhangs the meadows, the woods, 

 and yonder distant hills. We pass along the brook. 

 We pause by the familiar sites where a few weeks ago 

 our Orange Argiopes had encamped in the full swing of 

 their activity. They are gone! The splendid creatures 

 whose restless vigor in spinning-work and in captur- 

 ing prey you had noted and admired have disappeared. 

 Whither? Ah, here is one, suspended in listless mood 

 upon a tattered web. Here is another, a shrunken 

 remnant of her former self, sluggishly striding around 



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