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or dark brown lines, often very distinct, producing a map-like effect. 
There are often three or four divergently transverse black lines, and 
a posterior median dorsal one, and usually two small rhombic or 
cordate median dorsal areas, enclosed by narrow dark lines, and a 
smaller rounded one farther forward; the sides are covered with 
curved or wavy lines enclosing irregular areas; three small, dark | 
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Figure 211.—Filistata hibernalis; female; slightly enlarged. Figure 214.— 
Venomous Spider (Lathrodectus geometricus); a, female with cocoon; b 
another female; about nat. size. Phot. by A. H. V. 
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brown, roundish spots on each side ; legs rufous-brown, with dark 
brown bands at the joints ; spinnerets surrounded by a black ring 
interrupted by five or six white spots. The eggs are large, enclosed 
in a tough spheroidal cocoon, to which the female clings tenaciously. 
Found on fences, etc. Length of body of female, 8-10"™; abdomen, 
Git@ Miara: 
Bathyphantes, sp. A small, plain, slate-colored spider. 
Uloborus geniculatus Oliv.; Ring-legged Spider. Figures 215, 216. 
Adults are conspicuously marked with black snots and rings. 
Cephalothorax nearly black, with a lanceolate pale spot posteriorly ; 
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Figure 215.—Ring-legged Spider (Uloborus geniculatus); a, dorsal view of 
female, x14; 216—d, palpus of male; c, epigynum; after Marx. 
abdomen dark gray or pale gray, thickly specked and blotched with 
black, the black often predominant; legs yellowish brown, or light 
