68 THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 
where it fell and I was surprised to find that in that short space of 
time the dragonfly had dexterously nipped off its body.—C. W. 
CoLTHRupe. 
[This ignores the word fatal. The question is not which is more 
conspicuous, but in which attitude an attack would be the more in- 
jurious, and as bird attacks would generally be from above, it would 
certainly be advantageous to the butterfly to be tail upwards.—G.W.] 
SEconD BROOD OF BrRENTHIS SELENE IN 1915.—On August 21st, 
1915, I came across a specimen of a second brood of B. selene in 
Abbott’s Wood, Sussex, somewhat smaller than specimens of the 
Spring brood.—C. W. Corrueve. 
Cotias EDUSA AND Cotas HyALE In 1914 anv 1915.—In 1914 I 
kept the usual look-out at Hastbourne, Brighton, and East Kent, in 
May, July, August, and September, but did not see a single specimen 
of either species. 
On August 17th, 1915, I saw two specimens of Colias edusa on the 
railway bank between Polegate and Lewes, Sussex, and heard of others 
being seen, but a careful search in their usual haunts failed to disclose 
any others. Colias hyale was again conspicuous by its absence.—C. W. 
CoLTHRUP. 
HarRLyY EMERGENCE OF Hipernia LEUCOPHHARIA.—On January 11th, 
1916, I took a freshly emerged S specimen of Hibernia leucophaecaria 
off a tree-trunk at Midhurst, Sussex, where the honeysuckle was fully 
out in leaf, and further evidence of the abnormally warm and spring- 
like weather was afforded by my finding a queen wasp walking about 
the pavement at South Norwood on January 4th, 1916.—C. W. 
CoLTHrRupe. 
Sprmers arrackinc Morus arrer park.—One beautiful, still even- 
in June 1912, I was returning after dark from the Downs at Folke- 
stone, where I had been examining specimens of dyriades thetis (bell- 
argus) at rest, when my attention was drawn to the buzzing of wings, 
and on lighting my lamp I was surprised to find various species of 
moths, mostly common, swarming at flowers, one specimen of Xylo- 
phasia polyodon looking very grotesque as it clung to a flower of Silene 
inflata, weighing it to the ground. I suppose it was a night when 
sugar would have been a failure. Walking a little farther I came to 
a bed of nettles which was overhung by hawthorns and other bushes. 
Here there was a perfect pandemonium of buzzing wings, and, on 
turning my lamp on, I found both the nettles and overhanging bushes 
swarming with moths feeding on the honeydew. I suppose every 
common species out at the time was represented, but what interested 
me most was the way in which a number of members of a species of 
hunting spider were running over the nettle leaves, capturing the 
moths, stinging them, and laying them on their backs on the sticky 
honeydew, and going off in search of others, until the nettles looked a 
regular shambles. I was so interested that I quite lost sight of time, 
and arrived back in the small hours of the morning. 
At Abbott’s Wood, last August, I saw a grasshopper jump on to a 
platform connecting with a funnel-shaped spider’s web, down which 
the spider was lying in wait. As soon as the latter felt the vibration 
it sprang out, stung the grasshopper, and carried it away down the 
“funnel,” and proceeded to devour it. I put these two instances on 
record for what they are worth,—C, W, Conrarup, 
