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necessarily saw many other insects, and added a goodly number to 

 our collection. Almost the first stone that I turned over sheltered a 

 number of the slow-moving Stigniatonuna pallipcs ants, and in their 

 midst there was a fat and succulent lamellicorn larva about 14 mm. 

 in length. There were a few pallipcs ants close about it, and attached 

 to the beetle larva there were fifteen ant larvae in various stages of 

 growth. Most of them were about 5 mm. long, but some measured 

 only about 2 mm. They reminded me of a lot of hungry sucking 

 pigs. I found another lamellicorn larva, evidently of the same species 

 enclosed in its cell under a stone, and the interesting question is, 

 did the workers of Stigmatomma pallipcs bring the beetle larva to 

 their nest, or did they, after making the discovery, carry their own 

 young or eggs to it. In view of the size of the beetle larva, the 

 latter would seem to be the most probable explanation. Prof. 

 Wheeler states that the larvae of Stigmatomma are not fed by regur- 

 gitation, but on pieces of insects, and one of the chief points of 

 interest in this case is the size of the piece. 



It is usual to discover paralyzed spiders with the larvae of Pom- 

 pilus or some allied hymenopterous insects attached to them, but I was 

 surprised upon turning over a stone on the side of Black Rock 

 Mountain to find a large lycosid spider, which was quite active, 

 though it had what was evidently the larva of a hymenopterous par- 

 asite firmly attached near the base of its thorax. The spider was 

 so active that it charged and bit at my forceps, and did not seem 

 to be incapacitated in the least by the presence of the larva on its 

 back. 



On several occasions when we removed the bark from fallen trees, 

 we discovered a myriopod, evidently belonging to the family Geophi- 

 lidae, closely coiled about its eggs, of which there were usually about 

 fifty. We were interested in the fact that the eggs were guarded 

 thus carefully. 



The " tumble bug," CantJion clialcitcs. was an amusing insect about 

 Clayton, and we watched many rolling their balls of manure. No 

 doubt the presence of numerous pigs in the mountains contribute 

 much to their support. Often only one beetle rolls the ball, but if 

 there are two, one pushes with its head down and its hind legs 

 on the ball, while the other keeps climbing up on the opposite side 

 of the ball and so pulls it over. The ball is rolled about rather 



