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She passed within an inch of it several times, but seemed not to see it. 

 After a minute or two one of the other combatants (as I suppose) ah'ghted 

 and resumed the fight, but soon left again. At this time, as I feared that 

 the last one was about to leave also, I captured her. Whether the hole 

 was of her own making in the first jilace, or belonged to one of the other 

 contestants, or to none of them, I had no means of ascertaining ; but 

 there was evidently a bold attempt at robbery somewhere in the incident. 

 Brookings, So. Dak. J. M. Aldrich. 



EXCURSION. 



The entomologists of New York, Brooklyn, Newark, Philadelphia and 

 localities near these cities are invited to attend the second annual field 

 meeting to be held under the auspices of the Entomological Societies of 

 the cities at Jamesburgh, N. J., on July 4th, next. Jamesburgh is on the 

 Amboy Division of the Pennsylvania R.R., and may be reached from N. 

 Y., via Monmouth Junction, at 7.20 a. m.; Newark, 7.50 a. m.; Phila- 

 delphia, Broad St., 6.50 a. m.; Camden, 7.00 a. m. Later trains leave 

 N. Y. via Railway and Philadelphia, on the Long Branch Division, but 

 it is urged that the early train be used, as this will bring the party into 

 Jamesburgh at the same time. All those desiring or expecting to attend 

 will please notify one of the members of the committee, from whom also 

 further information can be obtained. The notification is important, in 

 order that proper arrangements may be made at Jamesburgh. Com- 

 mittee : — C. P. Machesney, 65 Broadway, N. Y. ; Dr. Hy. Skinner, Amer. 

 Ent. Soc, Logan Sq., Philadelphia ; Prof J. B. Smith, New Brunswick, 

 N. J.; H. W. Wenzel, 11 17 Moore St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



A CANNIBAL CRICKET. 



On September nth, 1889, I observed, on a grassy slope, a short 

 distance north of this city, a large ? black cricket, Gryllus negledus, feed- 

 ing on a recently killed $ . I observed her carefully for a few minutes. 

 There was a large wound on the side of the abdomen of the $ , and she 

 was greedily eating the semifluid and soft parts. She was not easily 

 alarmed, being very intent on her meal ; but, when I disturbed her with 

 the handle of my net, she seized hold of her gentleman friend and lugged 

 him away several inches and again resumed her meal. On the same 

 slope, a few yards away, I observed another ? gnawing at the thorax of 

 what most likely was a <^ . 



