240 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October, 



price asked, ten dollars a hundred, well repays the wine mer- 

 chant, who, at an expenditure of forty or fifty dollars, may sell 

 his stock of wine for a thousand or more dollars above what he 

 could have obtained for it before the spiders dressed his bottles 

 in the robes of long ago. Mr. Grantaire has on hand, at a time, 

 10,000 spiders, old and young, the e^gs of some of which, the 

 choicest, he obtains from France. 



When the mother spider wishes to lay her eggs she makes a 

 small web in a broad crack, then she lays say fifty eggs, which she 

 covers with a soft silk cocoon. In two weeks (or longer in Win- 

 ter) the eggs begin to hatch, an operation that takes one or two 

 days. The egg shells crack off in flakes and the young spiders 

 have a struggle to emerge. They then begin to grow, and in a 

 week look like spiders. They often moult and shed their skins 

 like snakes. The brood has to be separated at a tender age, else 

 the members of the family would devour each other until only 

 one was left. Natural Science News. 



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List of Rhopaiocera Taken in Webster, New Hampshire. 



By W. F. FISKE. 



Danias archippus, common, two broods ; the second not a full one. 



Euptoieta claudia, rare, August. 



Argynnis idalia, common, July i to September. 



cybele, very common, June 20 to August. 



aphrodite, very common, June 20 to September. 



at/antis, scarce on lowlands, com. on mountains, June 12 to Aug. 



myrina, very common, May to October, three broods. 



bellona, very common, May to October, three broods ; appears 



earlier than myrina. 

 Melitcea phceton, common, June, very local. 



harrisii, common, June, local on higher altitude than phczton. 

 Phycoides nycteis, common, June, local. 



thai-os, very common, May to September. 

 Grapta interrogationis, rare, both forms in Fall brood. 



comma, com. form harrisii ; March, September, form dryas, June. 

 faunus, rare on lowlands, common on mountains. 

 progne, some years common, others rare, rare in '95. 

 j-album, some years common, larva found on blackberry ; com- 

 mon in 1894, '95. 

 Vanessa milbertii, common, two and perhaps three broods. 



antiopa, some years common, two broods ; common in 1892 '93 

 and '94 ; very common in '93. 



