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 eggs 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. 



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. 

 atlantis, scarce on lowlands, com. on mountains, June 12 to Aug. 

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

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

 earlier than tnyrina. 

 Melitcea phceton, common, June, very local. 



harrisii, common, June, local on higher altitude Xhzn phaton. 

 Phycoides nycteis, common, June, local. 



tharos, very common. May to September. 

 Grapta interrogationis, rare, both forms in Fall brood. 



comma, com. form harrisii; March, September, form dry as, June. 

 faunus, rare on lowlands, common on mountains. 

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

 j-albtirn, 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. 



