

Some of Mrs. Epeira’s Neighbors 
dresses in a modest suit of black and 
white. ‘Toward the end of summer, 
when she is fully grown, she dons her 
conspicuous yellow gown, and people 
think that she has just arrived from 
some far-away region. 
The home of the Autumn Spider re- 
sembles that of Mrs. Epeira in many 
ways. It is a wheel hung vertically, 
as hers is. It has the same sort of 
substantial foundation, —the inelastic 
spokes and the sticky, elastic spiral. 
The centre, however, shows that Mrs. 
Argiope has some ideas of her own in 
building a silken house. At the cen- 
tre is a disk of white silk about an 
inch in diameter. Around this is a 
spiral of inelastic silk, which meets 
the sticky threads about two inches 
from the centre, making the hub fully 
four inches across. Directly above 
and below the disk, and meeting it, is 
a zigzag band of white silk, making 
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