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One day, while making my way up a little stream on a raft, I no- 

 ticed that most of the Hygrotrechus were spotted with red, and seeing one 

 of a bright vermillion color, dart off, determined at once to investi- 

 gate, thinking that it might be a new insect. After capturing the in- 

 sect, was very much surprised to find it covered with the larvae of 

 Trombidiimi. It is a common occurrence to find the Ti-ombidiiim larvae 

 on numerous Orthoptera and Diptera, but to find them on an acquatic in- 

 sect seemed truly remarkable, and especially so in this case, as the 

 Hygrotrechus never leave the water to go on shore, and how the Trom- 

 bidium larvc'e became transfixed to such lively insects is a mystery. 



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Orthoptera were exceedingly numerous ; all day could be heard 

 the sharp song of the Orchelimiim ; the Katy-did {^Platyphylliim con- 

 cavtini) was absent, however, seeming to prefer the more level farmlands 

 in the lower part of the 'state. 



It was at Greystone that I first became acquainted with that re- 

 markable and beautiful grasshopper, Spharagemon saxatile. It was on 

 a trip up. Mt. Toby, the highest of the hills. Ascending by way of an 

 old logging path : occasionally a Cichidela sexgiittata would run ahead 

 a short distance and alight in the path again, only to repeat the perform- 

 ance on my coming up to him ; when passing the clearings Vanessa 



