282 ANNIE H. PRITCHETT. 



Anosia berenice var. strigosa Bates. This butterfly has the 

 same warning coloration scheme as Anosia plexippus. It had 

 disappeared next day and was probably eaten. 



COLEOPTERA. 



The following specimens were introduced, but none of them 

 were eaten and were rarely ever noticed by the lizards, though 

 offered repeatedly : 



Har pains caliginosus Fab. December 2. 



Brachynns sp. February 13 (three). 



Clilcenins orbits Horn. March 7, March 23, April 3. 



Micryxis distinctns Hald. March 7. This beetle was evidently 

 too small for the lizards to perceive. They pay no attention to 

 small insects, possibly because their eyes are not capable of per- 

 ceiving them. 



Chauliognathus scutellaris Lee. May 4 (eighteen), May 5 

 (six). All refused. 



A notable exception to this custom of refusing beetles was seen 

 when three black-and-yellow blister beetles, Cantharis fulvipennis 

 Lee., were introduced May 19. A lizard seized one of the beetles 

 and ate it, then seized a second. One of the other lizards tried 

 to take it from the former, but was unsuccessful, and the second 

 beetle was eaten. The third was apparently not noticed by any 

 of the lizards and was soon removed. Specimens were intro- 

 duced May 20, May 21 and May 26. but did not seem to be 

 noticed. 



Occasionally larvae of beetles were introduced and eaten, but 

 with the above exception these lizards do not appear to feed on 

 imaginal Coleoptera. Cantharis probably does not appear in the 

 natural habitat of the lizard, the latter being a mountain species, 

 while the beetle is found in the fields on the Mexican poppy 

 (Argemone mexicand). 



ORTHOPTERA. 



Gryllns abbreviates. February 12 three specimens were intro- 

 duced, one of which was dead, and was at once seized and eaten 

 by a lizard. This was the first food it had taken since its cap- 

 ture, November 9, and it is the only instance known of a lizard 

 eating a dead insect. The two remaining crickets disappeared 



