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with its victim, holding the cicada by the legs with the smooth 

 back downward, so that it can be slid along more easily, and 

 then flying from its point of vantage, it may make a considerable 

 distance toward its nest before being borne down again by the 

 heavy burden. 



In Insect Life, Vol. IV, p. 248, a digger-wasp is shown by Dr. 

 Riley holding a cicada with the legs downward. This figure has 

 been copied in Howard's Insect Book, and in the List of New 

 Jersey Insects. In the writer's experience the cicada is held with 

 the legs upward, thus giving the wasp a firmer hold and making 

 transportation more easy. This was pointed out in some notes 

 on the habits of the larger digger-wasp, printed in the Canadian 

 Entomologist, for January, 1891. 



It may be of interest to add that the Cicada-killer on Long 

 Island and Staten Island, collects indiscriminately Tibicen sayi, 

 T. linnei, T. lyricen and T. canicularis, often placing more than 

 one species in the same burrow. No doubt the larger Tibicen 

 auletes is also captured on occasion. The Seventeen-Year Cicada 

 appears too early in the season on Staten Island to fall a prey to 

 the wasp. 



NOTICES. 



Subscribers will please note that our April-June issue was a 

 double number (Nos. 2 and 3). Owing to an oversight, 3 was 

 omitted on the cover, although it will be found in its proper place 

 on the first page. 



Title page and index for this volume will be issued with No. i, 

 Vol. XVI, for February, 1921. 



