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face and digs downward, increasing its den in size and depth as 

 it grows, until it reaches eight or ten inches deep. If a green 

 grass stem is dropped into their hole they will seize it, when a 

 quick jerk will place the larva above ground. 



The above observations are from a lifetime of observation in 

 Southern Texas. 



Mr. Schwarz stated that Mr. Mitchell had presented a full- 

 grown larva of Tetracha Carolina to the National Museum 

 which hitherto possessed only the larvae of T. virginica and 

 T. euphratica. 



Mr. Currie reported that over thirty specimens of Tetracha 

 virginicu had been taken from the toilet room in the Smith 

 sonian building last summer. They had no doubt been attracted 

 thither by the light at night and had been unable to get out. He 

 thought they must breed somewhere in the vicinity. Mr. Schwarz 

 thought that they could hardly breed nearer than the Pptomac 

 river or the carp ponds of the Fish Commission, as they required 

 damp places for this purpose. Mr. Marlatt said he had collected 

 large numbers of Tetracha Carolina in the daytime in Kansas 

 under clods of earth on plowed ground. The only water near 

 was a small pond. 



Mr. Schwarz then remarked upon the occurence of Cicin- 

 dela striga in Florida. The first specimens were found by Hub- 

 bard and Schwarz, attracted by the light of the camp fires at 

 Lake Harney and Enterprise. In 1894 a third locality was dis 

 covered in the vicinity of Punta Gorda. Here C. striga and C. 

 severa were seen on July i4th flying ahout during the noon hours 

 on a meadow-like opening in the pine woods close to the shore 

 of the bay. At the suggestion of Mr. Hubbard the place was 

 visited during a severe rain storm, when the meadow was under 

 water, excepting a few small hillocks. It was then found that 

 the Cicindelas had taken refuge under fallen leaves beneath the 

 small bushes growing on the hillocks. With a little strategy 

 specimens were then easily secured. 



Mr. Schwarz said there was a commonly-prevailing belief, 

 discredited by naturalists, that centipedes would leave a streak 

 in their path wherever they crawled over a person's body ; in 

 other words, that the claws of their feet would cause a poison- 



