194 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. — 
wishes to know the secrets of Hyptiotes’ daily life must be content to bear 
patiently many disappointments, endure many discomforts, and attend, 
through days of tedious waiting, with unruffled temper and unflagging 
zeal, upon the slow unfolding of the record. The spider is one to be looked 
after, not stumbled upon; its form is so inconspicuous, and its home in 
such obscure sites, that the naturalist will need to seek for it. No doubt 
much yet remains to learn of its behavior; its cocooning habit, for exam- 
ple, is wholly unknown, and the cocoon which Professor Wilder supposes 
to be hers is by no means well identified. The little mother has persist- 
ently denied me, in spite of numerous endeavors, the pleasure of settling 
this question. I cordially wish some of my readers better success in unray-— 
eling this and other unwound threads of the Triangle spider's life. 
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