1978] 
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Figure 2. Typical web of Miagrammopes sp. 1 (ca. unipus ) showing horizontal 
resting thread under twig and three capture threads. 
line in front of it with legs I). The result was to draw the spider 
close to the twig. When adopting the cryptic posture, the spider 
reached out briefly with legs II and III to pull itself closer to the 
twig, then positioned legs II against legs I, holding the broken end 
of the resting thread, and legs III against the sides of the abdomen. 
In this position it was nearly invisible (see Fig. 3). 
M. sp. 2 
The web of one adult female was found in the morning (the spider 
was without a web at 2100 the night before), and was similar to 
some of the webs of M. sp. 1. The spider rested pressed to the 
undersurface of a branch, at the end of a horizontal thread about 
3 cm long that was strung under the branch (Fig. 3). She held the 
broken end of the horizontal thread with one leg II and kept it tense 
by pulling in the thread with her hind legs, as described for M. 
simus and M. sp. 1. A single, vertical, capture thread (invisible 
until powdered) was attached near the other end of the horizontal 
thread. The lengths of the non-sticky and sticky portions of the 
capture thread were 7:53:40. 
