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found it abundant among the mountain pines of Central Pennsylvania, 



as well as among the flat, sandy, pine barrens of New Jersey, and in 



pine groves on the seashore at Ipswich Bay, Massachusetts. But 



I have frequently seen it in other positions, among shrubs and 



evergreens on the lawns of country residences ; in groves of deciduous trees 



in Connecticut; in the underbrush of Woodland Cemetery, Philadelphia; 



on the banks of the Schuylkill, and in shady ravines in Fairmount Park. 



Mrs. Mary Treat found it in New Jersey dwelling among flowering peas, 



having its snare attached to the dry sticks upon which the vines were sup- 



FIG. 169. 



Triangle spider, spun on a dry bush by a New England stone fence. 

 One-half natural size. 



ported. While Hyptiotes thus shows a disposition to domicile on any 

 sort of bushes or foliage, its favorite location may be said to be groves 

 .of pine. In this respect it corresponds with its European con- 

 Net Site ener ' Hyptiotes paradoxus, which Professor Thorell found in 

 the neighborhood of Stockholm during July, August, and Sep- 

 tember, principally in woods of trees of the fir kind, especially in pine 

 woods. 



Our Triangle spider, like Paradoxus, seems to choose most freely the 

 dry bare branches of the pine or other trees; but this is by no means a 



