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that prey upon them, lias just captured one of the 

 insects, and hosts of cicathi win^^s (which are not 

 eaten by the birds) are strewn on tlie ^n-ound. A 

 nest of the ant Formica fusca suh.'icrirca is sliown also 

 with the ants feeding on the dead bodies of the 

 cicadas. The cicadas are too large to be carried 

 into underground galleries, so are merely dragged 

 to the entrance of the nest and eaten there. 



A small variety of the cicada which has been 

 named J^Ucada casfiinii and occurs locally in nature 

 with the large form is shown in one corner of the 

 group. 



Twig punctured for 

 egg-laying. Photographed 

 from cicada group 



MUSEUM NOTES 



Since the last issue of the Journal the following persons have been 

 elected to membership in the Museum: 



Patrons, Mrs. Archer M. Huntington, Dr. Ch.\rles E. Slocum and 

 Mr. Fr.\nk K. Sturgis; 



Life Members, Mrs. Edgar S. Auchixcloss, Jr., ]\Irs. Gherardi 

 Davis, Mrs. W. B. Dinsmore, Mrs. William F. Milton, ]Mrs. James M. 

 Varnum, Miss Marie Louise Constable, Miss Anna J. Pierrepont, 

 Miss E. Louise Sands, Miss Harriet Wadsworth and Messrs. Carroll 

 Baldwin, Thomas G. Bennett, John R. Bradley, Eversley Childs, 

 John Lyman Cox, Glenn Ford McKinney, Edward Ludlow Parker, 

 James S. Watson, J. Griswold Webb, William P. Wharton, William 

 Wtlliams and Edwin O. Wood; 



Sustaining Members, Mrs. Robert F. Ballanti.xe, Mrs. G. Granville 

 Wright and Messrs. W. C. Brown and E. W. \'anderhoof; 



Annual Members, Mrs. Henry A. Alexander, Mrs. William Alex- 

 ander, Mrs. C. Vanderbilt Barton, Mrs. E. J. Berwind, Mrs. John E. 

 Borne, Mrs. George B. Case, Mrs. Alicia D. Conrad, Mrs. Thomas 

 Crimmins, Mrs. John M. Dillon, Mrs. Charles D. Halsey, Mrs. 

 Enoch Pratt Hyde, Mrs. J. F. McKean, Mrs. Charles E. Proctor, 

 Mrs. George Rose, Mrs. H. L. S.\tterlee, Mrs. George E. Schanck, 

 Mrs. Grace Lee Smidt, Mrs. John Wood Stewart, Mrs. C. W. Truslow, 

 Mrs. Alfred Tucker.man, Mrs. Artemas Ward, Mrs. Henry B. Wilson, 

 Mrs. T. Denon Wilson, Miss Ruth Auchincloss Child, Miss ]\L 

 Katharine Husted, Miss Eliza B. ALvsters, Miss Constance Pulitzer, 

 Miss Julia L. Waldo, Miss Margaret S. Whitney, Rear Admiral C. H. 

 Davis, Dr. Joseph D. Bryant, Dr. Martin Cohen, Dr. R. B. Contant, 

 Dr. Robert Johnstone Kahn, Dr. Harris Kennedy, Dr. James Stephen 

 Lemon, Dr. Hugo Lieber, Dr. Hugo Schweitzer and Messrs. George 



