142 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Satisfied with my experiment, and being very busy at the time, I put 

 the jar away, and on looking at it about a fortnight afterward, I found but 

 one beetle, and that one dead, of all that large family. As all the larva? 

 and three of the four beetles had disappeared and " left no trace 

 behind," I naturally concluded that they had been driven by starvation to 

 prey upon each other. There was no possibility of escape from the jar, 

 and my conclusion seems reasonable, even if I cannot prove it. 



I have ever since kept tallow in trunks or presses where there are 

 woolen garments, blankets or furs, and I have had nothing eaten up to 

 the time of writing. In preparing my boxes for mounted specimens, I 

 put bits of tallow between the strips of cork and cover with paper gummed 

 to the sides of the box, and I have not had a single specimen injured by 

 Dermsstes or any other cabinet pest. As tallow is cheap and can be 

 obtained in either town or country, I would heartily recommend it to both 

 housekeepers and naturalists. To the former it would be much better and 

 less disagreeable than the snuff, tobacco, pepper and other preventives 

 which are put on furs with such unsatisfactory results. Although such a 

 remedy as Prof. Bell recommends might do for the cabinet, it would be 

 neither pleasant nor safe to have about our clothing. 



MAMMALS ATTRACTED BY SUGAR. 



P.Y JAMES S. BAILEY, A. M., M. D., ALBANY, X. V. 



It has not been supposed that animal life would be attracted by sugar, 

 but while sugaring for Lepidoptera the contrary has been proven. On a 

 number of occasions we have taken deer mice while in the act of feeding 

 on sugar, and more recently we have Liken a flying squirrel while lapping 

 the sweet on a sugared patch. 



Not long since, in making our rounds while sugaring, we discovered a 

 skunk endeavoring to taste the sugaring, and so intent was he that our 



