96 Professors W. B. and R. E. Rogers 
ry cases meee forward. to. shew the absence of 
pein in insects. I have seen’a wasp eat a fly almost. npsiona | 
after a portion of its own print ‘had been cut off; I have 
seen a cockehafer crawling and eating on a hedge alter its abdo- 
men had-been emptied of the viscera, probably by some bird. It 
is well known that a dragon-fiy will eat freely for a considerable 
while confined bya pin through its body;, and every. one 
who has collected entomological specimens, must know the difli- 
eulty’in killing some of the larger moths. But as’this paper is 
already much longer than I originally intended, I shall mae’ —_ 
o% 
: ass of animals.’ 
. tuattiber of. ae bya single pai _ swallows and heir 
ghoaunee * to > che het pei | pot mrs oee a a variety 
-ae tb \Tacwes-Ot thse athe 
of r ¢ animals, such as the larve 0 
fly, &c., and one day introduced among them a few of the com 
J and water beetles, one of which was the Dytis+ 
cus marginalis. The dragon-flies h had been living wpon the ani- 
lw, &¢., the newts attacked and devoured: wed dragon-flies 
‘he next morning I found one of the newts | at the bottor 
