




y NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 443 
turbed, seeks a shelter or mimics death. Its larva is covered with hairs, 
ending in a pencil of them. The Attagenus pellio is a smaller 
iiinis musæorum (Fig. 1; a, larva; 6, pupa; neh enlarged) is a 
is short and thick, with iong Lie 
ise pease are largest and thickest at 
e end 

TURALIST, Of which 



he 
so 
logical specimens recently prepared should be place ed in quara 
museum pests will be introduced into the 




Surface beneath. Specimens thoroughly impreg 
arsenic, or corrosive aren: will not be attacked by them. 

GEOLOGY. 
Man.—In regard to the alleged discovery of human 
in the coral formation of Florida (see NATURALIST, Vol. Il, p: 886), 
Which was first published by Professor Agassiz in Nott & Gliddon’s 
“Types of M ema” (eighth edition, p. a8 and has appeared in other 
Water sandstone on the shore of Lake Monroe, associate i 
i -water Shells of species still living in the lake (Paludina, Amp 4 
tte.). No date can be assigned to the formation of that deposit, a 
from present observation.” 

