r'.c Stnutiitc- and Hants of Sfidcrs. 31 



genus Eri^cvu; containing a great number of 

 the smallest spiders known. Fig. 13 is the 

 common house Thcridion enlarged. 



EPEIRID.5:. 

 The round-web spiders. Large spiders, with 

 flat heads, and eves wide apart, and short, 

 round abdomens. Figs, i, 4. The}' make webs 

 formed of radiating lines crossed by other adhe- 

 sive ones in a spiral or concentric loops. Fig. 

 jS. The\' hang in the web, head downward, 

 or live upside down in a hole near by. 



