10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EPEIRID»
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One of the earliest to be reported is mentioned by Darwin ; in Rio de Janeiro he
observed an epeirid which adjusted its behaviour in accordance with what it saw.
'These spiders,' Darwin relates, 'are in the habit of dropping to the ground when ...
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Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society
Rau (Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 24: 15, 1922) recorded it as having been
collected at Creve Coeur Lake, Missouri, with its prey, a thoroughly paralyzed
epeirid spider, Epeira globosa Keys.1 Evans (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 75: 197,
1950) in his ...
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Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington
Also 1 1 male and female specimens reared from a parasitized cocoon of an
Epeirid collected at Washington, D. C, by the writer. Also 5 male specimens
reared from cocoon of Epeira angulata infested by Pimpla aquilonia (?) at Los
Angeles ...
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Transactions of the Linnean Society
18. f. 2. Family Epeirid^;. Genus Epeira, IValck. 5 1 . Epeira celata. Cephalo-
thorace pallide brunneo, marginibus strigis paucis transversis lateralibus
fasciaque mediant antice pallide brunneo-maculata nigris ; mandibulis
maxillisque saturate ...
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The Zoological Record: Being Records of Zoological Literature
A large species of Epeirid occurs, forming a strong web often 30 foet or more in
diameter. Fine largo species of Lycona and allied genera are found, and on the
coast the net of a "\Vater-Spider attached, to stones in the sea. A large species of
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CREEPIE* ...
They had an individual of the mall Epeirid species (.'yolom mica under ohuer~
ration for a month, and tested it almost daily with the tuning-fork. At the sound
ofthe fork the spider would drop ; when it had recovm'tl itself and returned to the
sum ...
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Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences (Vol. LIII, ...
EPEIRID^E. Argiope transversa Kmerton. Argiope transversa Emer., Trans. Conn.
Acad., mic, p. 1530, 1884. Epeira fasciata Heutz, Jour. Bost. Soc. N. H., V, p. 468 (
1847). One fine specimen from Las Vegas, September (Miss Ada Springer).
The largest Epeirid he ever saw taking flight was " the size of a marrowfat pea,
say one-fourth of an inch long. After having floated over a field and above a
hedgerow, it crossed a road and anchored upon the top of a young tree." But
perhaps ...
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Proceedings of the United States National Museum
Family. EPEIRID.K. EPEIRA GEMMA McCook. Epeira gemma McCook, Proc.
Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1888, j). 193. Several females from Williams. May 25, June
0-15, and July 27. EPEIRA CONCHLEA McCook. Epeira rone.hlea McCook, Proe
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