A NATURE WOOING. 



and characterized by possessing a long, slender post- 

 abdomen, which can be curled up over the back and 

 which is armed at the end with a sharp sting or telson, 

 hooked like a claw. This is con- 

 nected with a venom gland, so 

 that its puncture inflicts a wound 

 which is very painful. In C. 

 hentzi the sting has a small tu- 

 bercle or supplementary spine 

 beneath it; the body is striped 

 with black and yellow; the cau- 

 dal portion being brown, and the 

 legs yellow barred with brown. 

 The largest one of a number 

 taken measured but one and a 

 half inches in total length. For 

 the most part, they were found 

 beneath bark or between piles of logs. They also are 

 nocturnal and carnivorous in habit; seizing their 

 prey, which consists mainly of spiders and insects, 

 with the chelae, and then stinging it. The young are 

 said to be born alive and are carried about by the 

 mother for some time, attaching themselves to her 

 body by means of their slender pincers. 



In a small clearing in the underbrush I also took 

 to-day two females of a handsome, green, cone-headed 

 grasshopper, Conocephalus nietoi Sauss. The fastig- 

 ium, or projecting cone of the head, is short, stout. 



Fig. 20 A True 

 Scorpion. 



