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sp. [N. Raiik.s]. Oil tlio iiiiiflit of Soptombor 9, a moth, 

 Acronijcta sp. [Hcinricli] was also taken from a ceiiti- 

 pedo's mouth. A«!^ain, on May 'JG, one was enjoying a 

 motli, Diacrisia virpinica Fal). | II. (!. Dyar] whicli it had 

 cai)tuiV(I in tlio darkness. An incision liad Ix'cn made in 

 the victim's l)ody wall, at the side, and the soft alidDiniiial 

 contents devoured. They arc oven canibalistie. 1 once 

 plac^Ml two of them in a jar; the next morning, there was 

 only one, the larc^er, and a few scraj)s of lej^s and skin of 

 the other. 



PoUfdcsynus serraUu^ Say | K. V. Chamlierlin]. Under 

 the ])ark of a rotten lo^ May L'O, 1 5)1(1 we found the neat 

 mud nest and ei^^s of this species, with the mother's body 

 coiled carefully around them, 



Parajulus venustrus Wood. fR. V. Cham])erlin]. This 

 milliped was found feedinji: on the flower cluster of some 

 white-Howered composite by the roadside, Octol>er 7, 

 1916. 



Spiders 



Thcridium tcpidarioruyn Koch. [N. Banks]. A larc^e 

 spider, Phidippiis audax Iltz. [N. Banks] became en- 

 tan.u^led in the web of tlie little spider above. Tlie small 

 spider quickly threw a web about the laru:er one and 

 easily made him his victim — a veritable ^ame of David 

 and Golioth. 



Misumcna {Uuncinia) ojcator'm ?. [J. 11. Emerton]. 

 Feeding on .i^rasshoj)per, (PI. VI fi*^. 7, p=prey) Septem- 

 ber 10, 1918. 



Huncmia alcatoria TItz. [C. R. Shoemaker]. A little 

 II\nnen()pteron seemed to be asleej) on tlie (lowers of a 

 ^oldenro<l. WIkmi 1 ])ioked it up. 1 was sur])rise(l to find 

 that it was iield fast by this yellow sjiider, whose color 

 adorded him such ^ood ])rotection in his huntin.2:-,u:round, 

 the Hower, that even my practic<'d eye <1i(] not notice him. 



Misumoia aspcraia. [J. 11. Emertoji]. One often finds, 

 in the lields or by the railroad-track, sumac twigs, with 



