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of involuntary blind-man’s buff, strikes its tiny golden 
against the blinding lamp. Ah, thy doom is sealed! 
feminine scream. Then the nervous mistress, ná 
hand, courageously attacks, and with the scissors t 
antly captures, and most satisfactorily. destroys “the 
thing !” 
Notr.—Fig. 3 represents the pupa of Lachnosterna fesca, the 
bug, which was turned up by the spade in a garden in Maine, al 
middle of May.. The pupa of Cotalpa must closely resemble that of 
June bug. It will be seen in our review of the Cosmos, that 
fer lives three years instead of five as stated by early authors. — BY 

THE OSPREY, OR FISH-HAWK. 
BY AUGUSTUS FOWLER. 

Tus well-known migratory hawk (Pandion Ca 
arrives on our coast about the last of April, and d 2 
the south in the month of October. It subsists 
upon fish, which it procures by its own industry 
from morning till evening twilight. Upon examın 
bird it will be seen by its peculiar organization how 
adapted for its vocation. The body is compact al 
wings long, pointed, and extremely powerful ; the 
tibia muscular ; the soles of the feet supplied with 
protuberances, which, with its long, sharp, roun 
vent its prey from slipping from its grasp when ¢ 
struck. In the Osprey the wings denote great po 
are acute and long, and, as the wing is the lever of 
the more distant its extremity is from the centre of 1 
more power it has in resisting the air. The stiff, 
feathers arising from the wing of the osprey» 
primaries, are sixteen inches in length including 
the quills are three and a half inches long, and $ 

