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spond, she a})an(lon("(l allurement, and in the same man- 

 ner blocked his path and precii)itously hacked up under 

 him until the union could ])e formed. After a moment he 

 escaped and ran away, rather indifTerently, hut was re- 

 eaptuHMl hy precisely the same metliod. 



Mclauopliis fcmur-ruhruiti. A number of times recent- 

 ly T have seen the English sparrow pursuiniif or eating 

 insects, frequently this ^grasshopper or butterflies. May 

 it be that the disajjpearance of many horses on the streets 

 is seriously reducin<2: their food supply, and that thus the 

 automobiles may be a factor in chaniifing the diet of the 

 English sparrow from vegetable matter to insects? 



Schistocerca damnifica Sauss. c? [A. N. Caudell]. This 

 full-grown hopper was found jumping about among the 

 d<'ad leaves at the surprising date of April 7, 1915. 

 Whetlier he had hiberiuitwl or migrated remained a 

 mystery. His coat was all clean and unscarred. 



Gryllus pcnnsylvanicus^wrm. [A. N. Caudell]. Crick- 

 ets in confinement prove themselves ])ractically omniv- 

 orous. They eat almost any vegetable material offered 

 them — crackers, clover leaves, potatoes, etc., and in case 

 of extremity, they readily devour the dead bodies of their 

 companions. 



Ceuthophilus uhlcri (?) Scud. ?. [A. N. Caudell]. A 

 large quantity of soil had been thrown out of a hole in 

 the side of a little knoll in the road. This earth was in 

 the form of large chips, and their size and form showed 

 that they had been bitten out by some large-jawed insect. 

 The hole was three-fourths inch in diameter, and went in 

 horizontally, quite irregularly, for a distance of If) inclics. 

 It terminated in a pocket 1>4 inches long and 1 inch in 

 diameter, which was 5 inches beneath the surface. The 

 I)ocket was (■m])ty. Midway in the gallery, the above 

 cricket met me. It seems hardly jjossiblc that a creature 

 no larger than a grasshopper could have made so large 

 an excavation. The above burrow was found on July 17. 

 On dune 1(5, the following year while excavating a wasp 



