WEAVERS OF ROUND WEBS. 



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southwest as Texas. It abounds along the Atlantic seaboard from Maine 

 southward at least to Delaware and Maryland; and Hentz found it in Ala- 

 bama; he named it from the scalloped or furrow like markings 

 Ttie on the dorsum of the abdomen. In appearance and habits it 



Furrow resemD i es Epeira cornuta of Europe, and is not improbably a 

 variety of that species. 1 If this be so the species has a vast dis- 

 tribution, and retains its peculiarities in all countries, latitudes, and condi- 

 tions with undisturbed persistence. 



FIG. 101. Typical orb of Epeira. Half tone engraving made from a photograph. 



None of our Orbweavers more habitually shuns the light. She is rarely, 

 except when very young, found upon her snare during the day; but occu- 

 pies a neighboring crevice, tubular tent, or rolled leaf, concealed within 



1 1 have compared with the habits of E. cornuta as described by Menge in his Prussian 

 Spiders. The spinning, nesting, and cocooning and general habits of the two well agree. 



