128 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
September 30th.—Captured a fine specimen of Convolvuli; 
Grapta C-Album very abundant; while Urtice and Io, with 
Agestis, 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. Epwarbs. 
Great Malvern. 
Entomological Notes, Captures, §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 I have a chance; and last week, in my rambles in 
this lovely north of London, I 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. J 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 | 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. I venture to think that the jaws are better 
formed for feeding upon Coleoptera than soft worms. 
I send the nest just as I found it, after taking the females 
out, upon which I am operating to show jaws, &c. LI left 
several nests for future examination; and on paying a second 
visit I noticed one blown up, and just as I was taking a fly out 
of my net I noticed a small spider; and upon bringing my 
pocket-maguifier upon it found it a young Atypus, but could 
