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down close to the bark. The webs are made in low bushes 
and are vertical. Of the third species which this mother 
took, the same author says that the species is widely dis- 
tributed and common in many places; it is usually found 
under bark or stones. From this we can only see that 
this wasp goes out among the vegetation for her prey, 
and furthermore she gets those which are protectively 
colored. 
The second 7. clavatum also was forced to visit vari- 
ous habitats in the garden to get her prey. Synema par- 
vula is frequently found on the blossoms of umbellifer- 
ous plants (Comstock, p. 541); members of the genus 
Phidippus are usually found under sticks and stones. Of 
the two species of Dendryphantes, Comstock tells us 
nothing, except that they are nearly related to Phidip- 
pus; of Dictyna, he says that different species show 
marked differences in habit; one of them usually builds 
its webs on the walls of buildings, one in the heads of 
plants, and one on the surface of leaves. The members 
of the genus Miswmena are the crab spiders, and inhabit 
flowers. So the hunting-ground for this mother was the 
wide out-of-doors. 
The third wasp with her 36 spiders covered a large 
field, in so far as species were concerned. Oxyopes sal- 
ticus is found in early summer running on low bushes; 
Epeira foliata (under the name of Aranea frondosa, 
Comstock, p. 489) makes its web about houses, but more 
frequently on bushes; the spider is usually found in a 
retreat near the web; Dendryphantes and Phidippus, the 
latter usually found under stones; Zygoballus bettini 1s 
a common and widely distributed species. Thus so little 
is known of the habits of the spiders collected by this 
wasp that we can do little more than guess where or how 
she found them. 
