8 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES. 



with a hatchet, a daily .occur- 

 rance, and hogs killed with a 

 butcher knife — all offer a slow death 

 and the incarnate fiend in 

 human flesh, the murderer, stabs 

 or shoots a fellow being to death 

 without much warning. The 

 venomous animals, however, in seek 

 of food or as a means of self-defence 



found on a prairie in a hilly- 

 region, below a large conglom- 

 erated globular cactus where the 

 whole brood was dug out and 

 photo reproduced. It is quite a. 

 rare specimen and more fully 

 described already in another chap- 

 ter of these reminiscenses on Texas 

 insects and reptiles. 



1. Natural Size op the Mexican Scorpion. 2. Full Urown Texas 

 Scorpion. 3. Texas Scorpion (With Curved Tail) 



inoculate their victims with a 

 powerful narcotic secretion which, 

 after paralyzing the nerve centers, 

 gradually kills the victim or makes 

 him immune against resistance. 



THE TEXAS SCORPION 



On page 7 is depicted the female 

 scorpion with nearly full grown 

 young ones, magnified nearly one 

 time its natural size. It was 



The second illustration (p. 9) 

 shows endparts of two scorpion's 

 tail considerably magnified and 

 exposing some of the interior anat- 

 omy, with the venomducts, and the 

 glandular protuberance at the base- 

 part of each of the claws, all of 

 which is encased in a horny shell, 

 which covers the entire tailjoints: 

 and the upper body parts. 



