EVE Sl'Y 



like affair like that of the Aroiopf riparia. hung 

 witii its guy threads upon a dried fern. 



riie ballooning or tlying spiders are not con- 

 fined to any j)artic- 



ular species. Itseenis ^^^^^^^ 



to be an instinct with ^Zjf^^. 



them all, but espe- 

 cially with the orb- 

 weavers, or geometri- 

 cal web -makers, and 



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the wolf spiders; 

 those queer short- 

 legged specimens 

 which dodge about upon the 

 walls and fences, running for- 

 ward or backward as the whim 

 takes them, or even sideways 

 ^ in a manner at which a crab 



might turn green with envy. 

 A shower of cobwebs of unusual extent fell in 

 the vicinity of Brooklyn about ten years ago. hav- 

 ing been especially noted by a party of surveyors 



