lion had eaten 30 ducks and four or five geese, without pausing, we should 

 say he was taxing our credulity by relating a feat the animal could not perform. 

 But suppose he were to add that the lion, after being cut asunder, did not die, 

 but ate the severed lower portion of his body, we should be disposed to set 

 down the narrator as a madman. Yet this is just what a dragon fly has done, 

 flies being substituted for fowls, and large garden spiders for geese. The insect, 

 when accidentally struck asunder, has been known to eat the whole of its own 

 abdomen, when presented to it, and any other dragon flies would probably act 

 in a similar manner." But to return to our subject. This fierce terrestrial life 

 is a short one, however. It depends on the food supply, and may be counted 

 by weeks, for when insect life begins to fail, as autumn with her shortening days 

 and cooler evenings, it soon ends its career. Drawn by yet another instinct, it 

 returns to its former habitat, the water, lays its eggs, and dies. 



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Dr. William Barnes, 1 52 E. Prairie St., Decatur, 111. 



The Kny-Scheerer Co., 404-10 West 27th St., New York, N. Y. 

 Ward's Natural Science Establishment,, 84-102 College Ave., Rochester, 

 N. Y. 



J. G. Duthie, editor "Canadian Thresherman and Farmer," Winnipeg, 

 Canada. 



Herman H. Brehme, 74 13th Ave., Newark, N. J. 



William Reiff, care of Entomological Exchange, 366 Arborway, Jamaica 

 Plain, Mass. 



M. Rothke, 1957 Myrtle St., Scranton, Pa. 

 Fred Breitenbecker, 427 East 144th St., New York, N. Y. 

 Geo. P. Engelhardt, Children's Museum, The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 

 Sciences, Bedford Park, Brooklyn, N. Y., wants clippings or sections of food 

 plants containing living pupae of the Sesiidae. 



F. E. S. Bentall, The Towers, Heybridge, Essex, England. 



Gayle B. Pickwell, Merdock, Nebraska. 



Leonard Tatchell & Co., 23 The Arcade, Bournemouth, England. 



Ernst Jeheber, 39 E. Orange St., Lancaster, Pa. 



H. L. Hutchins, 20 Young St., New Haven, Conn. 



Joseph Sever, Dipl. Entomoloee, 335 E. 49th St., New York City, N. Y. 



F. C. Steele, 94 Kent St., Hartford, Conn. 



Frank G. Wolfe, 840 Webster Ave., Scranton, Pa. 



L. W. Newman, F. E. S., Bexley, Kent, England. (Buys British Lepidop- 

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