XERICE BIDEXTATA 



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SPECIES. BiDEKTA'TA c two-toothed " : the doTsal tuberclcs ETC so). 



TVe were on the lookout for eggs of Xerice hidentata 

 and Seirodonta hUineata for an entomologist who 

 wanted many of each, so we were examining elm- 

 leaves with special care. Thus it happened that One 

 of Us, standing on a corner waiting for a street-car, 

 instincHvely looked up at the leaves of a young elm 

 whose boughs hung over the sidewalk, and there, just 

 out of reach, spied an egg so small that she was not 

 perfectly sure it was an egg until she held it in her 

 hand. The umbrella would not reach the bough ; the 

 fish-Une was not in her pocket, since she was not out 

 hunting that morning: but she could not miss a 

 chance ; so she sprang up and managed to hook the 

 bough with her umbrella-handle, just in time to lose 

 her ear and give the passengers an exhibition of jump- 

 ing. She got the leaf with the egg on it, however, and 

 pulling out her lens, examined it before putting it into 

 the little pocket tin, never omitted from the contents 

 of her pocket; for in early days, when she sometimes 

 went out without it, she had been forced to remove 

 her glove and carry it home with a crawler in each 

 finger and two small ones in the thumb. 



