
330 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 

on the wet-sand. From the variegation of pale yellow and black they are 
singularly Crustacean-like, both in the larval form and in the perfect 
tate.” 
OF THE POTATOE-BUG.—I have seen, for the last few days, 
many of the western potatoe-bugs, with their larve, devouring the tops 
of the potatoes. I vent also SEMEA an enemy in a bug often found on 
ripe berries, which has a v easant smell, koki belongs to thè 
Cimicide, mid is iaia iin, st sucks the blood of the potatoe-bug.’ | 
— Wo. J. MCLAUGHLIN. 

GEOLOGY. 
GLACIAL MARKS IN THE Warre Mountatns.—Since Mr. Vose’s article 
was in print, he writes us that he has seen on Mount Kearsarge, one- 
third of the way up in the path, furrows running s. 20° £., and onè- 
the way up furrows running s. 30°. Also in Ellis’ Valley, about two 
miles above Jackson, on the east side of the river, close to the road, lines 
pointing just to the top of Mount Washington. He also found furrows 00 
Mount Chocorua. 
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writ that it “is an emigrant st the west. In the ye ab 10t 
e first along the roadside and yards about Fort Riley, Kansas, 
days ago I found several plants growing on and near the 
covered with spines; an annual; a noxious weed, from o.e? 
high; much branched.” tanieal z 
[We cannot attempt to name plants unless there is a proper bot eo 
f the pej 
specimen sent; that is, the flowers adhering to a bit o 
leaves adhering to another bit (or still better, when the gp of ith 
will admit of it, a flowering branch, or, in stemless plants, th paperi t 
the root-leaves adhering to its base), and a statement as to how al Eo 
grows; whether woody or herbaceous; and whether wild or cultiv 
W. C. F., Eastham, Mass. — The Turtle which you sent and ee 
say is the first specimen of the species you have seen on Cape e:Col, 
“ Musk piira Aromochelys odoratum Gray. It is given in A 
