76 The Structure and Habits of Spiders. 



end of a branch, it is easily mistaken for a part 

 of it. The web seems to be made in the night. 

 Wilder saw them early in the morning ; and I, 

 in the evening, between sunset and dark. A 



Fig. 38. 



single thread five or six inches long runs from 

 the spider's roost ; and from its extremity ra- 

 diate four branches, attached to various twigs in 

 the neighborhood, Fig. 38, AE, AF, AG, AH. 



