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Thysanura only. In vault I month. 

 133. — 14 yrs. 5 mos. Grave 6 ft., dry " rotten rock. " Peritonitis. Ob. 5, IX, 81, 

 Mass. Interred November 22, 1881, D. C. 

 Diptera, PhoridEe, puparia. 



Cadaver mummified, surface moist, skin and appendages practically intact. 

 Coffin in tin-lined case, top tacked on. 

 134. — 14 yrs. 8 mos. Grave 5 ft-, dry, sandy. Hydrocephalus. Interred March 3, 

 1882. 

 Diptera, Phoridfe, puparia {Conicera ?\, specimens lost. 

 135. — i6yrs. Grave 9 ft. , dry, sandy. CEdema of lungs. Interred October 9, 1880. 



Thysanura only. In vault 9 days. 

 136. — 18 yrs. 2 mos. Grave 5 ft., coffin submerged; sand and clay. Interred May 

 13, 1879. 

 No insects save a few Thysanura on inner side of coffin. Skeleton completely 

 stripped and disarticulated. Some grayish brain matter still left within dis- 

 articulated skull. 

 137. — 18 yrs. 3 mos. Grave 5 ft., coffin submerged; sand and clay. Membraneous 

 Croup. Interred February 2, 1878. 

 No insects found. 

 138. — 19 yrs. 2 mos. Grave 6 ft., dry, sandy. Bright's disease. Ob. 9, I, 77. 

 Interred April 17, 1877. 

 Gastropoda, Helicodisats lineatus Say. 

 Araneida, Lophocarenum, sp.; Lycosa, sp. 

 Hymenoptera, Formicidse, Camponotus melleus Say. 

 139. — 20 yrs. 3 mos. Grave 5 ft., wet, sand and clay. Phthisis. Interred Apr. 

 5, 1876. 

 No insects found. 

 140. — 24 yrs. 5 mos. Grave 5 ft., dry, sandy. Dysentery. Ob. 13, III, 72. In- 

 terred May 25, 1872. 

 Gastropoda, Helicodisats lineatus Say. 

 Araneida, Cicurina creber Bks. 

 Acarina, Hypopus, sp. 



Myriapoda, Isobates (/. minutus Brandt ?); lulus, sp. 

 Thysanura, undetermined. 

 Diptera, Phoridae, puparia (Co7iicera ?) . 

 In vault two months. 

 141. — 28 yrs. Grave 9 ft., dry, sandy. Pneumonia. Ob. 25, IX, 68, N. J. In- 

 terred April 25, 1884, D. C. 

 Crustacea, undetermined. 

 Pseudoscorpiones, Chelanops tristis Bks. 

 Araneida, Theriduim tepidarioru?n Koch. 

 Acarina, Gamasidee, Hypoaspis, sp. 

 Myriapoda, Isobates (Z minutus Brandt ?); lulus, sp. 

 Thysanura, Emtomobrya, sp. 

 Coleoptera, Pselaphidae, Batrisus globosus Lee. 



" Nitidulidae, Rhizophagics scalpturatus Mann. 



Diptera, Drosophilidse, Drosophila ampelophila Loew, probably accidental. 



