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THE COMMON SPIDERS 



three lines on the cephalothorax and a middle dark stripe 

 on the abdomen, with a light silvery stripe on each side. 



The male is smaller and more slender, with the legs longer. 

 The male palpi are one-half longer than the cephalothorax, the 

 femur forming nearly half its length (fig. 466). 



Tetragnatha laboriosa. — A little smaller than cxtoisa, with 

 shorter legs and mandibles, the latter short enough in the 



Fig. 400. 1 lie same web shown in hig. 459, treated so as to show 

 and the hole in the middle of the web. 



>pinil 



female to be almost vertical (fig. 463). The abdomen is pro- 

 portionally longer than in cxtcjisa, usually in the females three 



