$Epeira labyrinthea.$--This spider makes a large irregular web in which is a tent connected by a thread with the small round web below, much as in _Epeira globosa_. The female is a fifth of an inch long. The abdomen is oval and not unusually large, as it is in _globosa_ (fig. 408). The cephalothorax is long, dark brown in the middle and lighter at the sides, and almost white in front around and behind the eyes. The legs are white, with narrow dark brown rings at the ends of the joints and wider yellow rings on patella and femur of the first and second pairs. The abdomen is marked with four long white spots in front and a dark brown middle band behind. At the sides the abdomen is light brown or yellow. On the under side the ends of the mandibles and the maxillæ are black. The sternum is black, with a white middle stripe. The abdomen has a short middle white stripe surrounded by a large dark spot, and there are several yellow spots along the sides and around the spinnerets. [Illustration: FIG. 409. Web of Epeira labyrinthea with large irregular web around the nest. One-third the real size.] [Illustration: FIG. 410. Web of Epeira labyrinthea with string of cocoons in the upper part over the spider's nest. One-third the real size.] The round web of this spider is not large, generally three or four inches in diameter, but the irregular part above and partly covering it may be much larger, sometimes as much as six inches across, where the shape of the surrounding plants allows it (fig. 409). One segment at the upper part of the round web is partly open, as in _globosa_ (p. 173) and Zilla (p. 185), and here a strong thread passes to the nest, which is often covered by a large spreading tent. In the last of the summer several small, flat, brown cocoons are strung together in the irregular web above the tent (fig. 410), which is then smaller and less regularly made. [Illustration: FIGS. 411, 412. Epeira gibberosa, enlarged eight times.--411, back of female. 412, side view to show humps on the cephalothorax.]