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spond, she abandoned allurement, and in the same man- 

 ner blocked his path and precipitously backed up under 

 him until the union could be formed. After a moment he 

 escaped and ran away, rather indifferently, but was re- 

 captured by precisely the same method. 



Melanoplus femur-rub rum. A number of times recent- 

 ly I have seen the English sparrow pursuing or eating 

 insects, frequently this grasshopper or butterflies. May 

 it be that the disappearance of many horses on the streets 

 is seriously reducing their food supply, and that thus the 

 automobiles may be a factor in changing the diet of the 

 English sparrow from vegetable matter to insects? 



Schistocerca damnifica Sauss. c? [A. N. Caudell] . This 

 full-grown hopper was found jumping about among the 

 dead leaves at the surprising date of April 7, 1915. 

 Whether he had hibernated or migrated remained a 

 mystery. His coat was all clean and unscarred. 



Gryllus pennsylvanicus Burm. [A. N. Caudell]. Crick- 

 ets in confinement prove themselves practically omniv- 

 orous. They eat almost any vegetable material offered 

 them — crackers, clover leaves, potatoes, etc., and in case 

 of extremity, they readily devour the dead bodies of their 

 companions. 



Ceuthophilus uhleri (?) Scud. ?. [A. N. Caudell]. A 

 large quantity of soil had been thrown out of a hole in 

 the side of a little knoll in the road. This earth was in 

 the form of large chips, and their size and form showed 

 that they had been bitten out by some large-jawed insect. 

 The hole was three-fourths inch in diameter, and went in 

 horizontally, quite irregularly, for a distance of 16 inches. 

 It terminated in a pocket 134 inches long and 1 inch in 

 diameter, which was 5 inches beneath the surface. The 

 pocket was empty. Midway in the gallery, the above 

 cricket met me. It seems hardly possible that a creature 

 no larger than a grasshopper could have made so large 

 an excavation. The above burrow was found on July 17. 

 On June 16, the following year while excavating a wasp 



