Dec. 1S98] MOTTER : SlUDY OF THE FAUNA OF THE GRAVE. 221 



142 



!43 

 144 



145 

 146 



"47 



148 

 149 



56 yrs. No insects found. 



— 36 yrs. (Infant. ) No insects found. 

 — 36 yrs. (Infant.) No insects found. 

 — 56 yrs. (Infant.) No insects found. 



— Coffin so decayed and grave so wet, no definite results obtainable. 

 — Coffin so decayed and grave so wet, no definite results obtainable. 

 — Murder case, coffin filled with all sorts of rubbish ; not examined. 

 — Negro, aet. 18 yrs. (?) drowned, 7th St. wharf, August 29th. Body recovered 

 August 30th, inclosed in tin-lined case August 31st. Examined at Morgue 

 September 2d. Larva; taken from hair, face and clothing, September 16th 

 bred : 

 Diptera, Muscidce, Compsoinyia macellaria Fabr. 

 " " Litcilia acsar lAnn. 



150. — 7 yrs. 3 mos. Grave 4 ft., moist, sand and clay. Premature birth. 



No cadaver found in coffin, nothing to indicate that it had ever been placed 

 therein. Clothes nicely folded in bottom of coffin. A most thorough search 

 revealed but the following : 

 Thysanura, undetermined. 

 Coleoptera, Staphylinidse, Eleusis pallida. Lee, I specimen. 



" Larva;, undetermined. 



Diptera, Phorido?, puparium. 



Note 3. Numbers 101-104, 118, 129, 133, 134, 135, 138, 140, 

 141 graves prepared as explained in note 2, page 217. 



Note 4. The undetermined Coleopterous larvae mentioned in the 

 above lists belong, according to Mr. Schwarz, to but three species : 

 Actobius umbripeiinis Lee, Eleusis pallida Lee. and Rhizophagus 

 scalpturatus Mann. Owing to the illness of Mr. Schwarz, the deter- 

 minations could not be specified in each case. 



, Grouped and arranged in systematic order, the fauna of -the one 

 hundred and fifty disinterments studied, as thus far determined, stands 

 as follows : 



GASTROPODA. 

 Helicodiscus lineatus Say. Zonitoides minusculus Binn. 



Zouitoides arboreus Say. Vitrca electriua Gould. 



Vermes, undetermined. 



CRUSTACEA. 

 Armadillidium vulgare Ltr. , many undetermined. 

 ARACHNIDA. 

 Pseudoscorpiones, Chelanops tristis Bks. 



Araneida. 

 A galena, sp. Lepthyphantes, sp. 



A. ntevia Htz. Lopliocareni/111, sp. 



