128 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



September SOth. — Captured a fine specimen of Couvolvuli ; 

 Grapta C-Album very abundant; while Urticae and lo, with 

 Ageslis, I never saw more plentiful— almost every bramble 

 blossom had a specimen. 



Edusa has been taken on the railway-banks but sparingly. 

 I think this locality may boast of the number of butterflies: 

 I have taken forty-two out of the list within a radius of eight 

 miles. I was very unfortunate at ivy bloom, owing to so 

 much rain and cold nights. 



W. Edwaeds. 



Great Malvern. 



Entomological Notes^ Captures, S^c. 



Atypus Sulzeri in the North of London. — Some time ago 

 I was studying ' Blackwall's Spiders,' and have been very 

 much interested in the various accounts, but none gave me 

 so much pleasure as that of Atypus Sulzeri ; and ever since 

 I have " had it in my head," and always look for its tubes 

 whenever 1 have a chance ; and last week, in my rambles in 

 this lovely north of London, 1 saw what at first appeared like 

 a piece of dirty tape, hanging from the sides of an over- 

 hanging bank. My "heart was in my mouth" directly I saw 

 it, for I felt sure it was the nest of Atypus ; so I very 

 carefully dug it out, and at the bottom was the owner, — a 

 female, a most ferocious animal, ready to show fight if 

 touched. I generally like to feel how hard a spider can 

 bite ; and Atypus would take the prize, for I could not stand 

 it. I examined the bank and found several others, the tubes 

 varying from four to seven inches, each containing a female, 

 and at the bottom of one I found the remains of a beetle of 

 some kind. This interested me much, as I read in the 

 'Entomologist' that Mr. Moggridge thought they fed upon 

 worms. 1 venture to think that the jaws are better 

 formed for feeding upon Coleoptera tlian soft worms. 

 I send the nest just as I found it, after taldng the females 

 out, upon which I am operating to show jaws, &c. I left 

 several nests for future examination ; and on paving a second 

 visit I noticed one blown up, and just as I was taldng a fly out 

 of my net I noticed a small spider; and upon bringing my 

 pocket-magnifier upon it found it a young Atypus, but could 



