5070 Insects. 



the edges of which they curve together and fasten by silken threads: 

 many of the Clubionae have this habit: the loose stones forming the 

 dry walls by which the fields are separated in many parts of the 

 country afford shelter to many species, as the Textrix lycosina, the 

 Segestria senoculata, &c. : numbers of the web-forming kinds may be 

 found seated in or near their snares ; many of the Epeiridse, Liny- 

 phidse and Theridiidae may thus be captured : numerous species live 

 on the ground and should be sought for at the roots of grass in old 

 pastures, or on heaths and commons, or among the stems of aquatic 

 plants ; the Lycosae, which wander about in pursuit of their prey, may 

 thus be found: some spiders excavate deep holes in banks, which 

 they line with silk, as Atypus Sulzeri and Agelenalabyrinthica; others 

 live under water, as Argyroneta aquatica; and, lastly, a few inhabit 

 the blossoms of flowers, as Thomisus citreus. 



R. H. Meade. 



Bradford, 

 March, 1856. 



Captures of Doritis Apollo in Britain. — I have heard of many captures of Doritis 

 Apollo in Britain, but cold water is always thrown on them, and so no record is often 

 made of extraordinary captures. Sir Charles Lemon wrote to me that one was taken 

 near his house [in Cornwall], but he thought it was imported with plants in the pupa 

 state. Mr. Hudson Heaven told me that his father, the proprietor of Lundy Island, 

 took one (or two) near Portishead, Somersetshire. Weaver took the larva near Am- 

 bleside, and Mr. Wailes formerly gave me an account of its occurrence in the Isle of 

 Lewis, besides Sir William Hooker's account. I don't know why Mr. Wollaston did 

 not give the captor's name : that is essential. — J. C.Dale; GlanvilWs Wootton, near 

 Sherbourne, March 8, 1856. 



Fascination of a Butter fit/ by a Lizard. — " One evening, being seated in a room at 

 Gonuchpore, the window of which was open, and the ceiling on one side sloped down- 

 wards towards the window, my attention was attracted by a butterfly which chanced to 

 fly into the room. I observed its motions for a minute or two, when I thought there 

 was something that appeared unnatural in them, and the insect began to dart to and 

 fro in one direction, occasionally, however, varying its flight about the room. I looked 

 up to see what it could possibly be at, and instantly observed an ordinary-sized lizard 

 on the cloth of the upper ceiling. I had not even then the most distant idea of what 

 was really going on ; but seeing the butterfly dart every now and then at the lizard, I 

 supposed it in play, till its motions became less quick and animated. The lizard re- 

 mained all this time immovable, but at last suddenly shifted its ground to the sloping 

 part of the ceiling. The motions of the butterfly became still more languid, until at 

 lengih, to my utter surprise, I saw the lizard open its mouth, and the butterfly directly 

 flew into it. The lizard was about half a minute in swallowing it, wings and all. 



