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At Sea Cliff the shore is sandy and often quite stony. Here and 

 there are patclies of salt grass {Spartina) growing between tide-marks, 

 but always nearer to the high than to the low water marks. In muddy 

 places sometimes whole acres are covered by the grass. Tlie tide 

 here rises seven feet, and the roots of the lowest patches of salt grass 

 are, at ordinary high-tides, covered by about three feet of water. Such 

 a patch would be covered for about two and a half or three hours twice 

 a day. The roots form a sod, and embedded in the sod is a common 

 mussel {Modiola plicatuJa); MeJampvs hidentatus and species of Lit- 

 toriuea are common, and barnacles and seaweed grow^ on the stones in 

 the sod. Fiddler crabs ((re^asimMs) dig their holes here. Severalinsects 

 and arachnids are quite common, such as Anurida mariiima, an xVntho- 

 myiid tiy, a Curculionid, a species of Bembidium, Bdella marina, Chel- 

 anops tristiSj and several undescribed mites. 



"The soil is thoroughly drenched with salt water, and in it are various 

 marine w^orms {N'creis, Halodrillus, etc.). The Coccid was iirst discov- 

 ered in April, 1894, on the roots of a patch of salt grass w^hich at high 

 tide is covered by about two feet of water. They were usually in little 

 cavities, sometimes hundreds grouped together. They are from one to 

 two inches below the surface, sometimes just under loose stones. An 

 undescribed species of Trombidium preys upon them. Later I found 

 that it occurred in some very large salt meadows near Glen Cove, near 

 Glenwood and at Eoslyn. I have examined the roots of a closely allied 

 grass which growls sparsely above high water, but found no Coccids on 

 them. 



"The bay on which Sea Cliff, Glen Cove, Glenwood, and Eoslyn are 

 situated is known as Hempstead Harbor, and it is a branch of Long 

 Island Sound. The bay at this point is a mile wide. 



"The salt grass is used by clam diggers and fishermen to thatch out- 

 houses, for bedding, packing clams, fish, etc." Nathan Banks. 



AN ABNORMAL TIGER SWALLOW-TAIL. 



By L. O. Howard. 



The Division has been in correspondence during the past winter with 

 Mr. W. A. Harshbarger, of Washburn College, Topeka, Kans., con- 

 cerning an extraordinary specimen of the common tiger swallow-tail 

 [PaplUo turnus=^Jasoniades glaucus) which he reared from the iarva last 

 summer, and Mr. Harshbarger was finally good enough to send us the 

 specimen, which we have had figured both in colors and in black and 

 white and present the illustrations herewitli. The specimen was reared 

 from a larva giveu to Mr. Harshbarger by some non-entomological 

 acquaintance. It was kept for a short time in a bottle of water, but in 

 spite of this half drowning transformed to chrysalis and eventually 

 issued as an adult. Mr. Harshbarger states that he saw dui'ing the 



