

Some of Mrs. Epeira’s Neighbors 
when you see her is a crescent spot near 
the centre of the abdomen. It flashes 
and gleams as she moves about, till you 
are ready to declare that it is a spark of 
fire. It is not, however, but only a bit of 
exquisite metallic coloring. ‘The rest 
of her gown is in keeping with this 
brilliant bit of trimming. It is dark- 
green and black on the abdomen and 
waxlike white on the cephalo-thorax, 
while her eight slender legs 
are clad in light green dotted 






with black. All this shows 6 
from the under side. But § g © % 
you must get a glimpse of My Ih, py 
the upper surface. Here 
the abdomen has bands of ly 
real silver running the en- i ie ff 
tire length. ‘These are sep- a iy 
arated by stripes of black | i 
bordered with green. The ‘ 
cephalo-thorax has the same __piagram of Silver- 
wax-like cover that it has on Paani eee. 
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