LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xiii 



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XXIII. Mud Dauber, Mud Nest and Spider Prey 180 

 The Bolas Spider, Mastophora cornigera 



a Portrait 180 



b The pendent egg sac, opened to show young 1 80 



XXIV. Feather-foot spider, Uloborus americanus, with egg 



sac FIG. 6 



A symmetrical orb web of banded Argiope, Ar- 



giope trifasciata FIG. 6 



Female of tuberculate Cyclosa, Cyclosa turbinata, 



on egg string FIG. 6 



XXV. Wolf Spiders 



a A female Lycosa covered with young 202 



b Portrait of male, Pardosa milvina 202 



c Turret of burrow of Lycosa carolinensis 202 

 XXVI. Wolf Spiders, Lycosa 



a With captured fly 203 



b With attached egg sac 203 

 XXVII. The Green Lynx Spider, Peucetia viridans 



a Female and egg sac 210 



b Male . 210 



XXVIII. A Fisher Spider, Dolomedes scriptus 2 1 1 

 Grass Spider, Agelenopsis. An immature male sits in 



its tunnel 2 1 1 



Web of a grass spider, Agelenopsis, blankets the soil 2 1 1 

 XXIX. Hunting Spiders 



a A giant crab spider, Olios fasciculatus 246 



b A crab spider, Misumenoides aleatorius 246 

 XXX. Hunting Spiders 



a Male and female running spiders, Trachelas, in 



silken cell 247 

 b Running spider, Chirac anthium incluswn, with 



egg sac 247 



XXXI. Portrait of wandering spider, Cupiennius 262 



A wandering spider, Ctenus, with egg sac 262 



Portrait of jumping spider, Phidippus 262 



XXXII. Jumping Spiders 



a Phidippus formosus stalks a fly 263 



b Phidippus audax with bee fly 263 



