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common, the other I have not seen. Of the common one I have 

 only taken seven ; this morning I took one, and it immediately 

 began singing in my hand, and I had a good opportunity of 

 observing how it produced the noise. Neither wings nor legs 

 had any thing to do with it ; the sound proceeds solely from 

 the cavity of the drum : the abdomen is rather extended at the 

 time, and I found, by pressing it, I could modify the sound so 

 as to produce a note quite different from any which they spon- 

 taneously emit. Their principal note is a long je-ee-ee, occa- 

 sionally drawled out to a prodigious length. This is now and 

 then varied by a sharp chick chick, and then follows a sound 

 very like the running down of a watch. There is no more 

 music in their note than in the alarum of a common Dutch 

 clock. They are very difficult to obtain, keeping very high in 

 the trees, and their note is so deceptive that one cannot tell 

 where they are. One day I fancied I heard one in an oak 

 over a well in the yard ; when I reached the spot I thought it 

 was in the next tree, then in the next, till at last I found it 

 was at least one hundred yards from the house. The larger 

 and more noisy species of Cicada I have never heard but 

 once : I was out in the hummock, and just as a storm was 

 coming on they set up such a peal ! they were all high up in 

 the noble live oaks ; and after blundering about in the hum- 

 mock for a long time, I returned, having caught nothing but a 

 wetting to the skin, and a few dozen betes rouges. 



Savannah, June \Sth, 1838. — After tossing about three 

 days on St. John's bar, with a strong westerly wind, which 

 would not let us get out, we made our escape from Florida 

 on the 16th, and to-day got through the inland passage to this 

 place. 



Augusta^ June 22d, 1838. — On our passage to Savannah we 

 passed some beautiful islands producing fine live oaks and 

 AlagnoliWi and the Bignoniw were in full bloom. North of 

 Altamaha we noticed some islands particularly beautiful, from 



propose naming it Cicindela ventralis, and have attempted to latinize the cha- 

 racters. 



Cici. ventralis. Elytra subnigra, mas lunula apicali, fem. lunula apicali macu- 

 lisque 3 minutis medianis albidis : lahrtim albidum : meso- et metathorax linea 

 laterali tomentosA albidu : abdomen subtus viride segmentis \°. et 2'^°.fulvis aut 

 caslaneis. (Magnitudo et Statura Cic. Germanicae.) 

 Habitat— St. John's Bluff) East Florida, North America.— E. Nkwman. 



