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of these passages in 1893 for the World's Fair. A 

 number of the larger passages of the Unexplored Re- 

 gions have not been penetrated as far as man can go, 

 and some future explorer may, perhaps, find forma- 

 tions more beautiful and scenes more grand than those 

 occurring in the better known portions of the cave. 



LITTLE WYANDOTTE CAVE. 



The entrance to this cave is situated at the bottom 

 of a sink-hole distant about 300 yards from the front 

 of Wyandotte Cave Hotel. The floor of the cave is 

 about 20 feet below the bottom of the sink, and de- 

 scent is made by a ladder placed in a well-shaped 

 opening about three feet in diameter. 



In the crevices on the sides of this opening were 

 several cave salamanders, and also a number of the 

 large hump-backed cave crickets, Ceuthophilus stygius 

 (Scudd.). This insect reaches a length of one and a 

 fourth inches, and has antennae, or feelers, more than 

 four inches long. It is not a cricket, but belongs to 



the same family as the katydid, 

 c ' iTT though in general appearance it diifers 



widely from that common insect. It 

 AVUS found in the entrance of Wyandotte Cave, and 

 in several other of the smaller caverns of the vicinity, 

 but in no instance farther back than 250 feet from the 

 mouth. The adults seem to be more or less gregarious, 

 and, in one instance, more than 20 were found in a 

 small cranny in the wall. They were grouped in a 

 circle, in a space about six inches square, with their 

 long antenna' pointing toward the center of the circle, 



