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@ scavenger, as it does not convey its larval food 
> surface, but, like ferrugineus and the species of 
slegus and Dynastes, it seeks under-ground debris which 
— nghaatg Indeed, S. antaeus buries dead leaves 
I D. tityus revels amid over-ripe and rotting fruit in the 
har These are more nearly scavengers though not so 
ke in form of wing-case to the Geotrupes. 
Am lus muticus. 1 mention this cricket because its 
mound, very common here, so nearly resembles the mound of 
B. lasarus. The latter is formed of stems, the former of 
“erumbs, but they are alike in size and shape. A. 
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; builds near some small weed whose leaves furnish 
s RIRAG etalon wvieontal” chante, and the shaft 
where the insect insect lodges may extend in any one of the three 
positions indicated in our illustration. 
‘Om April 16th, in a sandy road we found several mounds 
_ almost exactly like those of A. muticus. At the base of 
the vertical quarter inch shaft from eight to ten inches deep 
We took in each case one or two specimens of the Carabid 
e, Geopinus incrassatus. 
nce my paper in the June News, I obtained a new date 
rd for Strategus antaeus having dug out a female, June 
15, or five weeks earlier than my previous first record. How- 
ever, this has been throughout a much earlier season than 
usual. I am also on the track of S. splendens. I find that it 
out for a promenade just after nightfall, walking slowly 
over paths where its polish may reflect the lantern rays. Its 
SMMMAcds are rare 2nd far apart, but where one is 
fae are traces of others. It is bradycinetus or slow-mov- 
a and thus is seldom found perfect or entire. The voracious 
$ eagerly disintegrate and mutilate any beetle alive or dead 
bE ey tener of rcs I took a splendens at near noon 
7 about the grass as if blind, but as it was minus one 
as I conjectured that its unusual diurnal wandering was 
cng its one-sided sense of smell and sound. The brooding 
haunt of splendens is still in part a mystery, but from certain 
* hints from loc4l diggings, I am more than guessing that it does 
