MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 179 
the forests of Tenasserim, living in holes at the roots of trees and clumps of 
bamboo. I give a copy of the note I made at the time :—: 
Camp Ataran, 16th October, 1891. Found the nest of a large hairy spider, 
a Galeodes, behind my tent among the roots of a clump of bamboos, The 
animal was outside and I tried to catch it,repulsive looking as it was, with 
a pair of forceps, but he, or she rather, escaped and ran down a hole. On 
digging it up I found the hole ran obliquely into the ground for about two 
feet and ended in a slightly enlarged chamber, I had dug gently and carefully 
to avoid injuring the spider and thus came on her crouching inside, I tried 
to pick her up with the forceps, but with a sudden leap she sprang on to my 
sleeve and began running up my arm. This was too much for me and I gave 
a violent jerk to my arm, sending spider and forceps flying. The spider feli 
close to the side of my tent on a rather bare space and then, to my astonish- 
meni, scuttled for its life. I followed and caught sight of the cause of its 
alarm, <A beautiful large Salius with black body and tawny red wings which 
I recognised as S. sycophanta was flying in an excited way round and round, 
Looking for the spider, after a hunt, I spied her crouching between a tuft of 
grass and a bundle of wooden tent pegs that had been thrown down, She 
had tucked in her legs and made herself as small as she could, ani I was 
struck by the resemblance of her reddish-brown furry body to the colour of 
the ground. Quite a long time the Salius kept quartering the ground and it 
seemed to me quite evident she was hunting by sight, for as long as the spider 
remained motionless, although the wasp passed two or three times within an 
inch or so, she never seemed to find it out, At last, why I don’t know, the 
spider made a rnsh trying to get to the shelter of a biggish clump of thatch- 
ing grass about a yard away. Like a flash the Saliws swooped down on her 
and then commenced a rough and tumble fight on the ground, both combatants 
rolling over and over so fast that I was quite unable to see whether the wasp 
managed to sting the spider or the spider managed to bite the wasp. How- 
ever, the spider in a few seconds shook herself free and again tried to reach 
shelter, but in vain, the Salius with a loud buzz flew right over and alighting 
on the ground beyond faced round and intercepted her, Then commenced .a 
curious scene : the spider stood on the defensive, turning and facing the wasp, 
as the latter with quivering wings and abdomen paced round and round, 
evidently watching an opportunity to close again, and the spider quite on its 
guard, standing up and keeping a vigilant eye on her enemy. This went on, I 
should thimk for fully ten minutes until, perhaps, tired out and taking advan- 
tage of the wasp’s stopping still for a second, the Galeodes made a second 
rush only to find herself grappled by her enemy. This time the hand-to- 
hand or rather sting-to-jaws fight did not last so long, when the spider shook 
herself clear of her antagonist she was evidently injured. Her rush for 
shelter was a crippled run and it was clear she was nearly done for. The 
Wasp, apparently as fresh as ever, leisurely flew after her, caught her up and 
