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322 AMERICAN SPIDERS AND THEIR SPINNINGWORK. 
turned upwards instead of downwards. (See Fig. 156, Chapter IX.) The 
spider rests, as in the case of her congener, beneath her tent, and waits 
for the prey that, striking upon and arrested by the labyrinth of crossed 
lines stretched above, drop into the inverted silken bowl, beneath which 
the watchful aranead hangs. Thus among the Linyphia, also, the Line- 
weavers have fair representatives of that nest making habit which we 
have regarded as germinal and 
typical of the nesting architect- 
ure of all the tribes. 
Among the Territelariz the 
tube making habit has a very 
high development, par- 
bea ne ticularly in the genera 
ela : 
Tubes. Nemesia, Cteniza, and 
Atypus. All these spi- 
ders make tubular burrows be- 
neath the surface of the ground, 
which are lined with a thick 
sheeting of silk that really con- 
stitutes a tube within a tunnel. 
(Fig. 301.) The genus Atypus 
carries this tube above the sur- 
face, attaching it, in the case of 
Abbot’s Atypus,! to the surface 
of trees (Figs. 302, 303), while 
Atypus piceus fastens her tube 
to the surface of weeds and grass 
into which or along which it is 
carried, Thus we find that in 
this large and interesting tribe 
the tube is also made the archi- 
Fic. 304. The tubular, funnel shaped nest of Cyrtauchenius ae 
elongatus. Elevated above the ground, and suspended to tectural type of the domicile. 
sae, ths eu ls cumel mow section vier ot The nest of Oystauahaning 
elongatus, as described by M. 
Eugene Simon, closely resembles that of Agalena ncevia in the character of 
the tube alone; but this tube is enclosed within a deep cylindrical burrow, 
and is prolonged upward for about three inches above the surface of the 
ground, and enlarged into a funnel shape, so that it becomes from two to 
three inches across at the orifice. (Fig. 304.) This aerial portion is snow 
white, and at once attracts the eye, even from a considerable distance; the 
nests, rising up amid sparse grass, which serves to support but not conceal 
them, present the appearance of scattered white fungi. Cyrtauchenius 
1 Atypus Abboti Walck. 
