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any mention of them. These brushes occurred in numerous species 

 belonginj; to the followin^^ genera: — MetalletUica, Chipradodh, 

 Ilioiilnrtitlhi, MlrroMduh's, J'st'iit/omantis, Archimnntix, MtKopteryx, 

 j: h(Ui)nittomanfis, Encliomfna, Gonifpeta, Jflirodal'i, Mdnlis, Teno- 

 dera. Iris, I'hesjHS, Fiscfterit, tSchizoceplKd^i, JJi/mciwjms, Creohrota, 

 Piiro.rifpili(S, Popa, Derojildt'fs, 0.rypj7».<f, PhiiUocrania, Cerato- 

 mands, Ifisiias, Go)u;)jh(s, Emjmsd, Jilejdiarls, &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. — Pi'oceed'nujs of the Asiatic fSociett/ 

 of BenyaJ, June 187'). 



On the Geoijraphiiid Distribution 0/ Schizocephala, a Genus of 

 Mantida). By J. Wood-Maso.n, 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 Schizocfphala is 

 one of the most "nndely distributed, not only of Mantidaj 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 

 examides of the (?) single species S. hicornis, viz. the Karakpur 

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

 Kaladgi in the Bombay presidency, Kachh, Ceylon, Murshidabad 

 and Calcutta in liengal, 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, Pinally, 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. — Proceeding's of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 

 June 1870. 



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

 iSeiyents loiih a small Owl and a little Marmot. By M. A. 

 Trecul. 



During my journey in North 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 soVne from Texas. Having remarked 

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

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

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

 the ramrod of my gun, and made a sli^vknot 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 piJled it up. The snake did not 

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

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

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

 way, which other travellers may find useful. 



