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a light line along the front margin and spreading only an 

 inch, appeared in numbers on the evening of April 2d. 

 The following day we saw many of the Gray-rumped Swifts 

 snatching them from the bushes in the clearing. I brought 



Fig. 125. Descending the Shaft. 



a single specimen back and found it was a species new to 

 science, which has been named Capnodes albicosta* 



Walking sticks and mantises were more abundant. Some 

 of the former had well-developed wings on which they 

 whirred about the bungalow; others had none at all or 

 reduced to a scale-like vestige. In an individual of a third 



* Zoologica, Vol. I, No. 4. 



