THE THERIDID^ 



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Figs. 2S2, 2S3, 284. Steatoda 

 marmorata. — 282,283, mark- 

 ings of the abdomen of the 

 female enlarged twice. 284, 

 head of the male. 



partly connected with a middle line (fig. 282). The head is 



wider and the eyes smaller and farther apart than in the other 



species, and the front middle eyes are 



the smallest. The head is wider in 



males {fig. 284) than in females, and 



the mandibles larger. It lives under 



stones and leaves at all seasons and 



occasionally on bushes. 



Steatoda corollata. — This, when full 



grown, is a little larger than marmo- 

 rata and darker colored, and the legs 



are shorter and stouter. The cephalo- 



thorax is dark brown, and the legs 



lighter brown, with dark rings at the 



ends of the joints. The abdomen is 



yellowish at the sides and has four or 



five irregular yellow spots, or pairs of spots, along the middle 



of a dark brown oval patch which nearly covers the middle of 



the back. In young specimens the abdomen is lighter, with 

 several pairs of dark spots. The eyes 

 are all nearly the same size, the front 

 middle pair slightly larger and farther 

 forward than the others. It lives under 

 stones, like the other species. 



Steatoda triangulosa. — The female is a 

 fifth of an inch to a quarter of an inch 



'^5 286 \ 



v- a c- , „ long. 1 he legs are longer and more 



Fig. 285. Steatoda corollata. ° .^^ ^ _ 



— Back of a small female sleudcr than in the Other species, the 



enlarged four times. r . • . • i ^i i i 



Fig. 286. Steatoda triangu- ^^^t pair twlCC aS loug aS the body. 



losa. — Back of female en- The ccphalothorax is oraugc brown, 



larged four times. ... , 



slightly rough in females and with short 

 ridges at the base of the hairs in males. The front middle eyes 

 are not larger than the others and are not as far forward as in 



