44 A NATURE WOOING. 



a decaying palmetto log I secure two mature speci- 

 mens of a small cockroach, Ceratinoptera lutea 

 Sauss.-Zehnt. This I have seen twice before, but 

 have not been able to capture until to-day. It seems 

 to occur rarely about palmetto logs and beneath rub- 

 bish. In color it is brownish yellow, flecked with 

 dusky on the pronotum. The wings just reach the 

 end of the abdomen and the total length of the body 

 is less than one-third of an inch. 



But few of the large roaches, Eurycotis ingens Scud- 

 der, have as yet reached maturity. The young, how- 

 ever, are very common beneath rubbish and the bark 

 of stumps. It is my opinion that E. sabalina Scud- 

 der is but the immature form of E. ingens. It was 

 described at the same time,* the chief differences 

 noted being the total absence of tegmina and wings 

 and the presence of a rather broad band of yellow on 

 the margin of pronotum, mesanotum and part of 

 metanotum. All the young of E. ingens possess these 

 characteristics, the yellow band disappearing in the 

 final moult. 



Beneath a board I also find two specimens of the 

 small greyish-brown ground lizard, Oligosoma lat- 

 er ale Say, one minus its tail, the other with what ap- 

 pears to be a reproduced tail, a bright red in color. 

 This species occurs as far north as southern Indiana, 

 but is there rare. 



Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat, Hist., XIX, 1877, pp. 92, 93. 



