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generally confined to the appropriate sex ; for the females are 
so gentle that I have seen several allow the males to dwell in 
the same tent with them, the pair living decently together as 
husband and wife should among christian people. 1 saw but 
once a male alone in a web, and I do not know whether they 
ever weave one themselves. It is strange that I never saw 
the cocoon of so common a species. 
Habitat. 'The United States, though somewhat rare in 
the North. 
2. LINYPHIA MARMORATA. 
Plate IV. Fig. 5. 
Description. Cephalothorax rufous, with a whitish edge ; 
abdomen black, with many bands, spots and dots; white with 
a tinge of yellow ; beneath with a few slender white lines and 
a yellow band each side, interrupted in two places, so as to 
make about six yellow spots ; feet dark green, long. 
Observations. This is a very large species, and very dis- 
tinct from L. communis, making very large webs, with long 
threads to secure them. 
Habitat. Alabama. July — August. 
3. LINYPHIA SCRIPTA. 
Plate IV. Fig. 6. 
Description. Cephalothorax blackish purple with a white 
edge; abdomen white, with curved spots and obsolete marks, 
purplish ; feet pale greenish, long ; a small species. 
Observations. This species may be recognized in the 
fields by the peculiar form of its web; the horizontal part of 
which, instead of being curved or hollowed downward, as in 
L. communis, is rounded upwards, so that the spider stands 
inverted, as it were under a bowl. It is quite distinct from 
that species and from L. marmorata. 
Habitat. Alabama. May — September. 
