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slaves are generally employed to extract these pests, which they do with 

 uncommon dexterity, Old Ligon tells us he had ten Chigoes taken out 

 of his feet in a morning " by the most unfortunate Yarico," whose tragical 

 story is now so celebrated in prose and verse. Mr. Southey says that 

 many of the first settlers of Brazil, before they knew the remedy to ex- 

 tract the Chigoes, lost their feet in the most dreadful manner. Walton, 

 in his " Present State of the Spanish Colonies," tells us of a Capuchin 

 friar, who carried away with him a colony of Chigoes in his foot as a 

 present to the scientific colleges in Europe; but, unfortunately for himself 

 and for science, the length of the voyage produced mortification in his 

 leg, that became necessary to cut it off to save the zealous missionary's 

 life, and the leg, with its inhabitants, were tumbled together into the sea. 

 Humboldt observes "that the whites born in the torrid zone walk bare- 

 foot with impunity in the same apartment where a European, recently 

 landed, is exposed to the attack of this animal. The Nigita, therefore, 

 distinguishes what the most delicate chemical analysis could not distin- 

 guish, the cellular membrane and blood of our European from those of 

 a Creole white." Cozvau's Curious Facts. 



Identification of Insects (Imagos) for Subscribers. 



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Entomological Literature. 



Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North 

 and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless monographs, or con- 

 taining descriptions of new genera, will not be noted. Contributions to the anatomy of 

 insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species will be recorded. 



i. Old Farm Fairies. A Summer Campaign in Brovvnieland against 

 King Cobweaver's Pixies. A story for young people, by Henry Chris- 

 topher McCook, 8vo. Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs & Co., 1895. 

 This is a novel book with a novel title. As the latter indicates, it is in- 

 tended for the little ones, and will go far toward planting the seeds of 

 interest for entomology in the minds of those whose inexperience pre- 

 cludes an interpretation of guides and introductions. The story deals 

 almost entirely with spiders, who, under the guise of Pixies, wage an un- 

 successful war against the Brownies. Numerous battles and duels occur, 



