of its own kind, but I have 
. * * © Immediately be- 
making perpendicular and oblique 
of an inch, by means of its tail, which 
. The eggs are passed from the 
food, but feeds upon all kinds of vege- 
; ahter a while the bag disap- 
and crippled 
one another 
which 
were 
and 
eees 
the 
and is 
and are dropped one by one into the holes. * * * 
no particular 
the dead 
pbserved them destroy 
sexually, the insect without the tail (which | presume to be 
one or two minutes, and the peculiarity | observed 
that the one I presume to be the female was over 
a shrill whistling sound, as if to call his mate. The 
_ instead of the reverse. After the act a small bag—evidently 
act lasts 
vis union was, 
the other without the tail 
about 
attached to the body of the female close to the tail ; this is 
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observations of Capt. Feilner, who was killed by the Indians 
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making them, agree quite exactly with those of recent writers. 
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