November 27, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



785 



Bryant sectioned the eyelids of a blood- 

 ejecting specimen, and found them highly 

 vascular and full of blood sinuses. 



On July 4, while collecting specimens of 

 Phrynosoma cornutum for examination of 

 stomach contents, I was fortunate enough to 

 witness this phenomenon. One of my students, 

 walking by my side, stooped and thrust out 

 his hand to pick up a large specimen, when 

 he was met by a sudden spurt of blood coming 

 unmistakably from the lizard's eye. The blood 

 spread over the young man's hand in a fan 

 shaped and even smear, extending from the 

 second joint of the index finger to the wrist, 

 and being about thirty mm. wide at the base. 

 On July Y, another specimen, while being 

 chloroformed, shot a quick jet of blood from 

 one eye. The blood was given an almost ex- 

 plosive impulse, and formed a single thick 

 drop on the inner wall of the bell jar. On 

 July 20, another specimen ejected blood while 

 being anesthetized. In this case, the blood on 

 the wall of the bell jar was mixed with tiny 

 fragments of skin and a few scales. 



All three animals were subjected to a very 

 careful examination. All were males. Their 

 lengths were 108 mm., 110 mm. and 108 mm. 

 The lizards were in good condition, even being 

 free from tapeworms and other intestinal para- 

 sites with which local Phrynosomas are much 

 infected. The stomach contents were char- 

 acteristic, consisting of agricultural ants, 

 small beetles, isopods, etc. In each case, the 

 eye from which the blood was ejected showed 

 a small quantity of clotted blood in the poste- 

 rior corner. The vessels were slightly swoUen. 

 The cornea seemed to be intact. In the first 

 two cases there was a small spot in the 

 sclerotic coat, which can be best described as 

 a blood blister. The contents on removal to 

 a slide, and staining with Wright's stain, 

 showed nothing except a few red corpuscles 

 and lymphocytes. The third specimen showed 

 nothing but a mass of clotted blood in the 

 posterior corner of the eye. In each case, 

 careful dissections were made, using needles 

 and working under a 48 mm. objective. No 

 parasites of any kind were found. 



In my opinion, the most significant fact of 

 all is that all three animals were moulting, the 

 third being in quite an advanced stage. 



W. M. WlNTON 

 The Eice Institute, 

 Houston, Texas 



THE COTTOlSr WORM MOTH AGAIN 



The large northward flight of the cotton 

 worm moth, Alabama argillacea Hubn., in 

 September, 1911, is still fresh in the memory 

 of entomologists. In 1912 a few of these moths 

 were taken in Massachusetts, but in 1913 none 

 were found, so far as the knowledge of the 

 writer goes. 



The present year none were reported in 

 September, but on the evening of October 17, 

 large numbers appeared at the lights in and 

 around Worcester and were in evidence for 

 several days. No other reports of their appear- 

 ance in the state this year have been received, 

 but it is hardly probable that they were only 

 locally present. 



It is interesting to note that while they were 

 taken during the last week in September in 

 1911, and from September 21 to 25 in 1912, 

 their first appearance this year was October 

 lY, nearly a month later than in the other 

 years mentioned. 



(Since the above was put in type this insect 

 has also been reported as abundant in Pitts- 

 field during the same period. 



H. T. Feenald 



Amherst, Mass. 



SCIENTIFIC BOOKS 

 Lehrbuch der Meteorologie. Von Dr. Julius 

 Hann, Professor an der TJniversitat Wien. 

 Dritte, unter Mitwirkung von Professor 

 Dr. SiJRiNG (Potsdam) umgearbeitete Au- 

 flage. Leipzig, 1913, 1914. Chr. Herm. 

 Tauchnitz. 8vo. Pts. 1-9, pp. 800.^ 

 It is significant of the progress of meteorol- 

 ogy that three editions of von Hann's " Lehr- 

 buch " have been published in the past twelve 



1 Ten parts are to be issued. The last one has 

 been delayed, doubtless on account of the war. — 

 The reviewer. 



