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demands upon him ; he obtained his specimens under logs and stones 

 where he had placed old bones as a bait. They appear to be scarce, and 

 he has so far secured but one male. 



The occurrence of such a form so far north is of particular interest, 

 for Cyphoderris belongs to a group of Anostostomata (a subdivision of 

 Stenopelmatini) which is purely American, but mainly tropical, its 

 northernmost allies being found in Mexico. Moreover, the Old World 

 species and genera of Anostostomata are from the southern hemisphere 

 exclusively. 



Both Mr. Fletcher and I kept our females alive for nearly a month, 

 feeding them chiefly on apples, of which they partook rather sparingly. 

 They were very sluggish, as seemed fit for such heavy-bodied creatures 5 

 and could scarcely jump at all, not above half an inch at a time, and 

 were more active by night than by day. Whether eggs are laid in the 

 autumn or spring is uncertain ; the former would seem probable from 

 their dying in captivity before November, the latter from the fact that 

 when captured in September the thermometer stood at 19° F. I gave my 

 specimen no water, but Mr. Fletcher gave his some from a brush, which 

 she drank, but, he writes me, " if I push the brush too assiduously she 

 turns over on her back and bites and kicks savagely and then lies 

 perfectly still." After death the abdomen contracts greatly. 



Taking advantage of possessing a living specimen, I took notes of the 

 colouring, etc., from which the following description of the female is 

 taken : 



Head above the antenna? bronze black, longitudinally marked with 

 pallid luteous ; genae and face below the antennae pale lilac, excepting 

 the clypeus and labrum, which are pale lemon yellow, the whole marked 

 with blackish ; palpi pallid, feebly infuscated, especially the maxillary 

 pair, in stripes and apical marginings, the extreme apex of apical joint 

 pallid ; basal joint of antennae pallid, with broad basal and narrow 

 subapical fuscous annuli, the remaining joints bronze black ; eyes 

 castaneous. 



Pronotum subcylindrical, subequal, very feebly constricted just in 

 advance of the middle, dull luteous with a nacreous sheen, the posterior 

 edge and lower margins of the lateral lobes flavous or flavescent, the 

 whole heavily and massively marked, especially in the constricted region, 

 with very dark glistening bronze green, the whole surface, whether dark 



