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as a color, attracted Ornithoptera. He used red cloth with great 

 success. 



His luckiest strike, however, was not in the insect line but 

 in the discovery of a most wonderful animal, the great "Land- 

 schnabelthier. " In short, this animal has a bill like a bird, has 

 hardly any tail, belongs to the warm-blooded animals — the 

 mammals. It lives in the ground like a mole — only coming out 

 of his hole at night. Hind feet like mole feet. The fore feet 

 are like those of an elephant. This most curious animal lays 

 eggs like a bird and does not bring forth living young like a 

 mammal. Laying eggs like a turtle, it carries its young in a bag. 

 It also has a tendency to change the temperature of the blood 

 according to that of the atmosphere. Of the particular species 

 taken by Mr. Kibler not a single specimen had ever been brought 

 to Europe. Kibler finally managed to secure eight specimens. 

 He sold two of them to Tring, two to Berlin, two to the Hun- 

 garian Museum at Buda-Pesth, one to Frankfort. The remain- 

 ing one died and this one he brought with him to America and 

 sold to the American Museum of Natural History. The female 

 at Tring began to lay eggs a few days after arrival, much to Mr. 

 Rothschild's delight and Kibler's pecuniary advantage. 



After he had become acquainted with the natives, he made 

 excursions into the neighboring islands — sometimes with great 

 success, other times not so successful. His stay in civilization 

 was short. Only the wHdemess has channs for him. A week 

 after arrival here he left for San Francisco to start afresh to the 

 Solomon Islands. I suppose he will wander until some day some 

 of the natives of these dangerous islands make away with him. 



Hemiptera. — A specimen of Ceraleptus americanus has been 

 taken in the Rockaway Beach washup. It has not hitherto been 

 reported east of California. ■ 



Lepidoptera. — A Sesiid, Albuna pyramidalis, a mountain 

 species, is recorded from Long Island, bred in Brooklyn. 



Lepidoptera. — Catocala marniorata has been taken in Brooklyn. 



Odonata. — Somatochlora provocans, a rare dragon-fly anywhere, 



is now represented by a single female from Sullivan County, N. Y. 



