10 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES. 



killed by the vinaigron. But 

 in no instance had we observed 

 that it used its long tail to sting 

 and inoculate its victims; it simp- 

 ly grabbed the roaches quickly 

 with its sheers and held them thus 

 to the mouthpiece for further 

 ■disposal. 



Rio specimen, as seen on the min- 

 iature picture (third row, second 

 last picture) and a magnified orig- 

 ■ inal view of same on this page show- 

 ing one nearly entire cockroach 

 and the mutilated bodyparts of the 

 others, with one of the roaches in 

 in tight embrace of the giant's arms. 



The Texas Vinaigron with the Roaches it Mutilated 



My friend, Mr. P. G. Lucas, a 

 prominent druggist of San Anto- 

 nio, and others witnessed this scene 

 with me as described; and, after 

 the vinaigron had finished its 

 meal, I took the bottle with all 

 the contents to my private ofiice, 

 chloroformed the prisoner, and 

 prepared the photo of this Del 



In rambling around the prairie 

 plains a multitude of interesting 

 nature-objects often confront the 

 observant hunter and naturalist, 

 and it would take volumes of 

 print to enumerate in detail 

 the numerous insects and ani- 

 mals of Western Texas, and only 



