Archive image from page 53 of American spiders and their spinning. American spiders and their spinning work. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits CUbiodiversity1121211-9810 Year: 1889 ( he stretched the first and second pairs of legs sidewise, but after a moment backed away. These manoeuvres were repeated many times, the attitude assumed during them being as represented by Fig. 25. Occasionally he would bend the tip of the abdomen down, lifting the body up on the last joints of the two hindermost legs. The female al
Archive image from page 53 of American spiders and their spinning. American spiders and their spinning work. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits CUbiodiversity1121211-9810 Year: 1889 ( he stretched the first and second pairs of legs sidewise, but after a moment backed away. These manoeuvres were repeated many times, the attitude assumed during them being as represented by Fig. 25. Occasionally he would bend the tip of the abdomen down, lifting the body up on the last joints of the two hindermost legs. The female always paid the greatest attention to his movements, lying on the ground with all the legs flattened Positions in courtship of Marptusa familiaris. and the palpi slightly raiscd, tllC Male on the rigiit hand. (After Peckham.) movcmcnt visible being the vi- bration of the palps. There is a certain slowness and dignity about tlie wooing of this species, almost ludicrous. Tlie males of Dendryphantes capitatus approach the female rapidly, until witliin two to five inches, when they stop and extend the legs di- rectly forward close to the ground, the legs being slightly curved, with the tips turned up. This position serves admirably to Showing expose the whole of the l)ronze and white face Gaudy p 26) to the attentive female, who watches him closely from a little distance. As the wooer grows more excited, he lies down on one side, with his legs still extended. These antics are repeated for a very long time, even for hours, before the female accepts his addresses. Tlie male of Ilabrocestum splendens is a magnificent fel- low, having an abdomen of glowing pink, and bronze ceph- alothorax tinted with reddisli brown. He began his addresses by advanc- ing a few inches towards the female and then backing off again. Habro- This movement was repeated many times. After awhile he set- tled down under a little web in a corner. The female, troubled by tins indifferent treatment, advance
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