The Tent-Makers 
It has a stairway leading from the flat 
roof to the ground-floor beneath. It 
is a pretty tunnel-staircase slanting ob- 
liquely downward. There are no steps, 
but Mrs. Agelena does not need steps 
when she has twenty-four claws to help 
her to climb up a smooth surface. 
Sometimes this elaborate tent has a 
cellar as well as a ground-floor. This 
is a crack or a crevice in the ground. 
When this is the case the stairway 
always ends in the cellar. 
Mrs. Grass-Spider does not look 
very much like her relatives the orb 
weavers. She never dresses in bright 
colors as they do, but wears an incon- 
spicuous suit of dark-brown or gray. 
Her abdomen and cephalo-thorax are 
almost equal in size. At the end of 
the abdomen are two pointed projec- 
tions like a pair of pincers. ‘These 
are the hinder pair of spinnerets, the 
pair that she makes the most use of 
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