Notes and Comments a 
THE two annexed photographs of Scorpions, readers of Annan Lire. These creatures 
Scorpionsiane ele one showing a male and (for we must not call them insects) vary 
rest and in female in repose, and the other much in size, but are all nocturnal in their 
a couple of males fighting, habits, skulking under stones or bark during 
combat. 
SCORPIONS FIGHTING. 
serve to illustrate an interesting chapter in the daytime. Although the sting of the 
Mr. Lydekker’s “ Mostly Mammals,’—a book small European species does not inflict a 
which we take for granted is familiar to all severe wound, that caused by the larger 
