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Linn, in numbers, and saw one of them being carried by the wasp 

 Sphex ichneumonea Linn, to her burrow in the adjoining sandy 

 road. In the mountains of northern Georgia we have found 

 Sphex partial to Atlanticus dorsalis Burm. Dr. A. S. Packard 

 records Orchelimum as a prey of this Sphex. 



Katydids, Cyrtophyllus perspicillatus Linn., sang often in the 

 day, as is their habit in the fall, and sometimes we heard them 

 at II or 12 a. m., when the sun was at its warmest. They were 

 also laying their eggs in the bark of the pitch pines, both at Cal- 

 verton and Yaphank, and it did not seem to make any difference 

 to them whether they faced head downward or the reverse. The 

 ovipositor was inserted sidewise into the layers of the thick bark, 

 and the six insects that were observed thus engaged were located 

 on the tree trunks all the way from one to five feet above the 

 ground. We also found two females on the trunk of a large oak, 

 but they were not laying eggs at the time. About the first of 

 October many of the katydids die, and we found one dead male 

 with his caudal appendage wedged into the bark of an oak, and 

 also one female on the trunk of a pine, that was so nearly dead 

 that she moved her legs and antennae but feebly when we re- 

 moved her from the tree. 



The common box turtle, Cistudo Carolina Linn., is described 

 as black or dark brown above, with numerous yellow blotches, the 

 markings being extremely variable. In the woods north of Ama- 

 gansett we found a box turtle of a chocolate brown color. At 

 first the shell showed no yellow markings, but upon being rubbed 

 with a cloth these showed faintly. The yellow markings on the 

 head and legs were also not as pronounced as usual. This turtle 

 was about two thirds grown, being three and three-fourths inches 

 in length along the plastron. 



Cedar birds, Bomhycilla cedrormn, were quite plentiful in one 

 of the wooded hollows that occur in the Montauk downs, and we 

 were interested to see them fly froin some spreading sour gum and 

 zigzag about in their efforts to catch the white and black geom- 

 etrid moths, Cingilia catenaria Cram., that were very plentiful. 



