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slants upward into the labyrinth to the point where the spider is domi- 
ciled. The domicile is a small, bell shaped, silken tent, which is usually 
protected above by a withered leaf; or is simply a slight silken canopy 
spun within or against the lower end of the leaf. In the cocooning 
season this shelter tent is sometimes spun against the lowest one of the 
Fic. 115. Labyrinth spider’s snare, to show the maze of intersecting lines above the orb. 
several cocoons which the spider habitually makes. (Fig. 114.) The retite- 
larian snare or maze of netted lines, which happily suggested 
sy Hentz’s specific name, labyrinthea, is situated above and to one 
mes. side of the orb, which it somewhat overlaps. It is irregular in 
shape, but often rudely pyramidal, sometimes making a bulk of 
spinningwork from ten to twelve inches wide and high, and six to eight 
inches deep. For example, Fig. 115, a snare spun in a fir tree measured 
