

The Gentlemen of the Family 
in brilliant-colored garments, as if hop- 
ing to make up for their diminutive 
size with gay colors. ‘They have the 
same shape as their sisters, with the 
eight legs and the spinnerets. One set 
of appendages, however, differs from 
those of the females. You remember 
that all the Spinners have a pair of foot- 
like appendages near the mouth, called 
palps. The palps of the female end 
with a slender-pointed segment. Now 
this last segment of the male’s palp is 
round and thick, resembling a knob. 
Whenever you meet a Spinner with 
knobbed palps, you may know it is one 
of the gentlemen of the family. 
Some of the males build their own 
homes, catch their own prey, and for 
the most part live their lives in soli- 
tude. Others prefer to have the fe- 
males do the work of building, so they 
slyly take possession of a corner of the 
house when it is completed, and watch 
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