Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 377
y are frequently broken; this gives it theappearance of one of those dilapidated and desertedwebs in which bits of wind-blown rubbish are frequentlyentangled. . . . Out of seven examples of the species taken duringone summer, five were found in dead tamarack branches,one on a dead bush, and the… … Fig. 1. — C^ROSTRIS MiTRALIS (from Vinson). On attempting to take them down I was surprised tosee one of the supposed cocoons begin to shake theweb violently. Ten were what they seemed to be, butthe eleventh was the mother spider, whose color and general appearance was ex-actly like that of the…
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