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framework and draws the first radius, up which she 

 travels to the centre again, and by repetition of the 

 process the spokes of the wheel-shaped web are run 

 across from the centre to the circumference. Once 



FIG. 21. Nest of Agelena made by the young on surface of furze. 

 ( From a specimen in the Manchester Museum. ) 



more running to the centre, the spider constructs a 

 temporary spiral, the turns of which are looser as she 

 travels outwards. Finally the finished spiral lines are 

 spun of a second store of glands. These are more 

 sticky than the rest, and serve, of course, to entangle the 



