74 The Structure and Habits of Spielers. 



and at the same time tangles a band of fine 

 threads, C. This band is laid along, and 

 attached here and there to a plain thread. A, B, 

 so as to make it adhere more readily to an 

 insect that happens to touch it. As one \s:g 

 gets tired, they change, and work with the 

 other. In the webs of these spiders this adhe- 



sive band can be seen with the naked eye, nm- 

 ning about, as in Fig. 36. The webs are usually 

 irregular, and shajjed to fit the place where they 

 are built, but have, in some part, a tube some- 

 what like that of the grass spider. Fig. 24, 

 where the owner hides. Sometimes they are 

 more or less regular in structure, some of the 



