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cutting off leaves as before, and when I had removed all the 

 larger ones I carried the three stocks, still so firmly united that 

 I was unable to separate them with my little knife, and weigh- 

 ing fifteen pounds or more, to a spring farther down the canyon 

 side so that I might wash out the mud when necessary to make 

 more careful search. In all the bromeliads examined these 

 two days there was much mud between the leaves, chiefly the 

 outer ones, as well as dead leaves of trees which have fallen 

 from the above or, perhaps at times, have been carried in by 

 wind. At noon — after three hours' constant work — I finished 

 the examination and had found two more dragonfly larvae." 



This clump of bromeliads was tenanted, in addition to the 

 Odonate larvae, by a young scorpion {Centrums margaritatus 

 Gerv.) two inches long, which had just moulted, the exuvia 

 also found; two species of Phalangids (Metergimus signatus 

 Bks., Cynorta sp.), a Pseudoscorpion (Chclanops sp.), and Co- 

 leoptera, both adults {Metamasius dimidiatipennis Jekel ; Ale- 

 goria dilatata Castelnau ; Cryptobium sp., or genus allied 

 thereto ; an Endomychid genus, new, near Trochoideus; Cercyon 

 or Phaenonotuni sp. ; and Phaenoiwfnm tarsale Sharp) and 

 larvae (Elaterids, probably of the genus Serniotiis and others 

 allied to what is considered the larva of Dolopius; a Lampyrid 

 of an unknown genus, but apparently related to Plwtiiris; a 

 Sphaeridid, possibly Phaenonotum tarsale) a Dipterous larva 

 (Stratiomyid) with a circle of setae at its hind end; two 

 Heteroptera, the subglobular shiny Chlaeiiocoris dissiiiiilis Dist. 

 and a flat nymph of (probably) Belminiis rngiilosus Stal ; a 

 Hepialid caterpillar; a small earwig ("too immature to be de- 

 terminable; probably it is a Labia, possibly L. annulata Fabr.") ; 

 ants of an undescribed species of Apterostigma. The wee- 

 vil, Metamasius dimidiatipennis, bore many Acari (a species of 

 Uropoda) on its legs, and another larger Acarine (Celanopsis 

 sp.) was present between the leaves; finally in the mud 

 between some of the leaves was a fair-sized earthworm (an im- 

 mature Andiodrilus biolleyi Cog. di Mar.) quick in its move- 



