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well as most beautiful spiders : it is generally found among 

 rushes, &c., on the margins of ponds, brooks, rivers, and in 

 marshy places. Another more local but closely-allied species, 

 Epeira patagiata, Koch, is found in similar situations, but, as 

 yet known, is rare in England compared to its congener, E. 

 apoclisa. Epeira sericata, Koch, is very nearly allied to both 

 the above species, but hitherto I have only found it, in Eng- 

 land, on the old walls of the city of Chester. In South Ger- 

 many I found it frequently, spinning its webs in the angles 

 of the wood-work of bridges, &c., but never (as stated by 

 Mr. Blackwall, Brit, and Ir. Spiders, p. 329) in the same 

 situation as the two former species. A close examination of 

 the palpi and palpal organs of the males, and of the sexual 

 appendages of the females, would be necessary, for anyone 

 not well acquainted with them, to separate individuals of the 

 three species. 



O. P.-Cambridge. 

 January 9, 1867. 



Life-histonj of Satyrus JEgeria. — The eggs are laid singly 

 on the stalks or leaves of several species of grass, in July, 

 and are almost spherical in figure, the entire surface being 

 reticulated with minute ridges, which divide it into hexagonal 

 cells, and give it the appearance of being honeycombed : the 

 young larvae emerge in eight or ten days, and feed on the 

 leaves of grasses : at first they are of a dingy brown colour, 

 except the head, which is black, and exhibit but little in- 

 dication of stripes ; after the first moult they lose their black 

 heads and assume green ones. Sepp observed them to moult 

 " five times, namely, on the 11th of August, when eight days' 

 old, on the 18th and 27th of the same month, and on the 4th 

 and loth of September, and that they ale their skins after 

 each moult." They are full-fed by the end of September, 

 when they rest in a. perfectly straight position on at blade of 

 grass. Head subglobose, wider than the 2nd segment, sca- 

 brous, the raised points causing the scabrosity emitting 

 small but rigid bristles : body slightly shuttle-shaped, the 

 attenuation being more manifest towards the anal extremity ; 

 incisions of the segments deeply and conspicuously marked ; 



