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VERTEBRATA. 



(19) Rana oesopus Cope. 



VISITANTS 



INSECTA. 



(20) Philonthus cautus. 



(21) Ptomophagus ulkei. [De Funiak.] 



(22) Ptomophagus consobrinus. [Crescent City.] 



(23) Saprinus ferrugineus Mars. 



(24) Thelyphomis giganteiis Lucas. 



The paper was discussed by Messrs. Schwarz and Gill. Mr. 

 Schwarz said that the only contribution published since Mr. 

 Hubbard's original paper was by Mr. G. Lewis in the Entomol 

 ogist's Monthly Magazine for January last. This consisted 

 mainly of a letter from Dr. Hamilton and the advice to Euro 

 pean entomologists to dig up European turtle holes in the hope 

 of similar discoveries. Mr. Schwarz, however, was of the 

 opinion that they have in Europe no turtle of similar habits. 

 He further said that while Lake Worth is the most southern 

 point at which gopher burrows have been examined, at least 60 

 miles south of this point gopher burrows will be found, viz : at 

 Cape Florida. He further said that we have in this country 

 three species of Gopherus the one studied by Mr. Hubbard, 

 G. agassizii in the Death Valley and adjoining regions, and G. 

 berlandieri of Texas. The members of the Death Valley Expe 

 dition were unable to discover any holes of the first named, and 

 almost nothing is known about the Texas form. On a recent 

 trip he tried, with little success, to find out something about it. 

 The only success he had was the statement from the inhabitants 

 of Pena, near Laredo, on the Mexican National Railway, that a 

 burrowing turtle exists in the large sand plains near that point, 

 but he was unable to investigate. 



Dr. Gill stated that the analogy in morphology is not neces 

 sarily connected with similarity in habits. The European land 

 tortoises are not so closely allied to the American species as they 

 seemed to be. The Testudos in Europe do not make regular 

 burrows. They hibernate in holes not made by themselves, 

 although probably enlarged by them, and under rocks. The 



