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These threads form false branches by single rods turning aside. 

 Thus in Cladsthrix we find every foim of the Schizcmjcetes 

 represented. 



Two species are described. One is very common in still and 

 running water ; the other occurs in the lachrymal canals of the 

 human eye. 



In the above short account of the Schizomycetes I have en- 

 deavoured to approach the subject mainly from the standpoint of 

 the naturalist. Time would fail me were I to notice the many 

 other points connected with this group of organisms. I must be 

 content to hope that the few remarks I have made may not be 

 wholly uninteresting to this Society. 



March 2, 1894. 



A DAY'S INSECT HUNTING AT CAPARO. 



By R. R. Mole. 



A SWEET April morning, with a dewy softness about the 

 atmosphere, the very feel of which brings back forcibly to 

 the memory a showery spring morning in old England. Above, 

 a cloudy sky with here and there streaks of azure blue ; a heavy 

 bank of white cloud lying over to the Westward above the lofty 

 line of verdant forest, which stretches mile upon mile, into the 

 interior. But it is only the freshness of the morning and the 

 clouds which remind us of home, for look where we will we have 

 evidence that we are in the tropics. The palm leaf* roofs of 

 one or two houses peep here and there out of the surrounding 

 gardens, which are full of gigantic broad-leafed plantain and 

 banana plants, resplendent with the crystals of the showery night 

 which has just passed away. Here are orange and mango trees — 

 none of any size, however, for we are in quite a new locality, 

 where four years ago stately balatasf and majestic ceibas j reared 

 their haughty heads among a myriad other, lesser, but no less 

 beautiful forest trees, the aerial play-grounds of long-bearded 

 howling monkeys,§ who morning and evening roared out their 

 welcomes and farewells to the sun with the regularity with which 

 he rose and set. Graceful little capuchina|| — or matchins as they 

 are called here- — sprang from bough to branch, or swung by their 



* Carat — Sabal glaucescens. 

 t Mimusops dissecta, R. Br. 

 J Eriodendron anfractuosum. 

 § Mycetes seniculus. 

 || Cebus sp. 



