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any mention of them. These brushes occurred in numerous species 

 belonging to the following genera : — MetaUeutica, Chceradodis, 

 Hiimhertiella, Mkromantis, Pseudonutntis, Archhnantis, Mesopteryx, 

 jrJiasmatomantis, Euchomena, Gonj/peta, H'lerodida, Mantis, Teno- 

 dera, Iris, Phespis, Fischeria, Bchizocephala, Hynienopus, Creohrota, 

 Paroxi/pilus, Popa, Deroplati/s, Oxypilus, Phyllocrania, Cerato- 

 mantis, Hestias, Oongylus, Empusa, Blepharis, &c., and probably 

 universally throughout the whole group, although he had examined 

 none of the American species, which, however, were hardly likely to 

 prove an exception to the rule. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society 

 of Bengal, June 1876. 



On the Geographical Distribution of Schizocephala, a Genus of 

 Mantidse. By J. Wood-Masox, Esq. 



The author states that, so far from being a peculiarly African 

 form, as it is considered to be by M. de Saussure in his recent 

 monograph of the family, the remarkable genus Scliizocephala is 

 one of the most widely distributed, not only of Mantidae but of 

 insects, in India — and, in support of his statement, gives a long list 

 of localities from which he has received either perfect or immature 

 examples of the (?) single species S. bicornis, viz. the Karakpur 

 hills in Behar, Devapur and Chanda in the Central Provinces, 

 Kaladgi in the Bombay presidency, Kachh, Ceylon, Murshidabad 

 and Calcutta in Bengal, Pegu, &c., and quotes the old entomologist 

 Stoll, who describes and figures examples from Tranquebar and 

 China, and Professor Westwood's ' Arcana Entomologica,' in which 

 it is referred to as an Asiatic form. Finally, he concludes either 

 that the locality given by M. de Saussure is erroneous, or that that 

 author's specimens, if really from South Africa, represent a second 

 species of the genus. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 

 June 187G. 



On the Capture of llattlesnakes, and on the Association of these 

 Serpents ivitli a small Owl and a little Marmot. By M. A. 

 Trecul. 



During my journey in Korth America, I traversed in 1848 a 

 region situated to the west of Arkansas, where rattlesnakes are 

 very common. I took several of them, which I sent to the museum ; 

 the following year I also sent some from Texas. Having remarked 

 that, after making themselves heard, they had little disposition to 

 fly at persous a little way from them, I conceived the idea of taking 

 them in the following manner. 1 attached a thread to the end of 

 the ramrod of my gun, and made a slip-knot at its free extremity : 

 I then went to the snake, which I had heard or which had been 

 pointed out to me by the Osages with whom I travelled ; I excited 

 it ; and when it raised itself up, threatening and hissing, I passed 

 my running knot round its neck and pulled it up. The snake did not 

 then make any movement or any effort to disengage itself, but re- 

 mained straight as a stick. It was easy to kill it. Those which I 

 sent to the Natural-History Museum at Paris were taken in this 

 "way, which other travellers may find useful. 



