436 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
threw itself backward. The Rev. Joseph Greene, to whom I gave 
a description, a the insect to have belonged to the family 
ze odontide, many which have the habit of thus bending them- 
elves. I Sartied a the oo and alarmed every one in the 
sagi where I was then living, t hom I showed it. It unfortu- 
nately died before an pn the elin form. — H. W. BATES, Linnean 
Transactions, 1862, p. 5 
HORNED Corypatus.—One of the largest and most formida- 
ble looking, though perfectly harmless, insects we have, is the Cory- 
` dalus cornutus. Its large size, its broad net-veined wings and slow- 
and fens of Carboniferous times. It is probable that the Sialide, the 
` family to which this insect belongs, were much more numerous in 
those early ages of the world’s history than now, as there are wide 
gaps between the genera, prani were the geological record com- 
plete, we could undoubtedly fill 
We do not yet know how oe io are laid by the parent, or their 
form er see Those of Sialis, an allied genus, are cylindrical, ter- 
minating at the top in a sudden point, and are at- 
tached, side by side, to sat with the greatest 
pene according to Wes 
The larva (Fig. 2) is broad ee fatte ned, with @ 
= on long, thick respiratory filaments attached 
side of each ring of the abdomen; and 
ws, 
insects, which it seizes in its powerful jaws- 
When of full size, it leaves wy stream or pool in 
which it has been living, and makes an earthen 
cell in the bank, in which e inactive pupa un- 
dergoes the rest of its transformations. Our figure 
insect 
resents the female. In the male, the jaws are nearly as long as the 
antennæ, and much like them in form, being very slender. 
BREEDING F THE PeLican.—In your August number ap- 
pears a statement of Mr. Beal in regard to the White Pelican cap’ 
in Cayuga county, in which he copies the following extract from Pro- 
fessor Baird’: t of the bird, in reference to its b 
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