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butcherbird, on an open prong of an empty hanging cotton boll in field of 

 old stalks, at Wolfe City, Tex., January 20, 1909. This record affords 

 interest from the fact that cotton bolls may be utilized in such manner in 

 place of thorns or wire-fence barbs. The cricket had been pierced side- 

 ways in the thorax by the point of the boll, 



Gtocoris bullatus Say. — See " Propensity of Plant-bugs for Biting 

 Persons." 



Atomoscelis sericatus Reut.— See "Propensity of Plant-bugs for Biting 

 Persons." 



ARACHNIDS FROM SPANISH MOSS. 

 In further connection with the hibernation of boll weevils, a quantity 

 of Spanish moss, Tillandsia usneoides L., was examined at Natchez, Miss., 

 during the middle of May, 1909. The few insects found besides the boll 

 weevil have not yet been studied, but the arachnids have been identified 

 by Mr. Nathan Banks, as follows : 



Liohufium vittatum Say. 

 Zelotes sp. (immature). 

 Afiyphcena fallens Htz. 

 TJieridiiim spirale Emer. 

 Grammonota maculatci Bks. 

 Philodrotniis t>ernix^ Blk. 

 Deiidryphantes odavus Htz. 



PROPENSITY OF PLANT-BUGS FOR BITING PERSONS. 

 Several times during August, 1909, at Dallas, Tex., I was annoyed by 

 being bitten on my hands by little green leafhoppers, which bounded away 

 as soon as I gave a jerk on feeling the bite. These insects entered my 

 room at night through the screens of open windows, being attracted by 

 electric lights above my desk. Early in September specimens were 

 captured in the act of biting me, and their identification by Mr. O. Heide- 

 mann was reported as Empoasca mail Le B. The same species was again 

 detected in biting me during July, 1910, and subsequently another 

 occasion was presented for observing its attack from start to finish. This 

 last occurrence happened on the night of October 2. From the time ray 

 attention was first attracted by feeling the bite until the insect desisted, a 

 trifle over four minutes elapsed according to my watch. The insect was 

 then captured, and after being crushed on a white sheet of paper, a faint 

 bloody streak was produced, which proved beyond any doubt that the 

 specimen had actually engorged itself with blood. 



