400 General Netes. [May, 
quarter, and that during the warm spring, summer and early 
autumn months she lives on the surface: ; 
1. Only during the latter part of October and fore part of Novem- 
ber, have I found the newly built nest and chimney-like structures. 
2. I always found then, in each shaft, one spider in its winter 
slee 
3. In May the structures above ground were, if still existing, in 
a dilapidated condition, and the shafts unoccupied. 
4. In June, July and August, I have never found a single spi- 
der “ at home,” the above ground buildings were in the same unre- 
paired and dilapidated state. 
5. During these months I have found by sweeping the grass 
and low bushes, three specimens of the spider, and one in an old 
stump of a sycamore, where she had constructed a web. 
As this spider lives in a cultivated place, 7. ¢., grass bottom 
with shrubbery and trees in abundance near by, she finds her 
prey outside her shaft, and at the same time, ample opportunity 
to hide from her enemies under moss, leaves or stones, etc., W ile 
T. pikei and L. arenicola, living without any shelter on the bar- 
ren sand dunes, are compelled, for safety sake to occupy their 
under-ground habitations permanently. 
Lycosa turricola builds her nest, according to the statement of 
t 
Fic. 8.—Entrance to nest of 7: nidifex. 
half way (see Fig. 8), but if she uses coarser sticks, she lays oe 
ways as is shown in Fig. 7, but if she finds a piece naturally 
bent, she makes use of the curve by laying it so that the er Wick 
side is brought around the hole-—Geo. Marx, Washington, D. ‘ 
ive 
from Mr. J. P. Henderson, Commissioner of Agriculture of Geor- 
gia, specimens of this insect (Acrobasts nebulo Walsh) reported as 
doing great injury to the orchards of Mr. James Speir, in Bryan 
Co., of that State, webbing together the leaves and eating © 
buds as they put forth in the spring. Its injuries in th 
States have long been well known, but its appearan 
South has not been so generally recorded. 
