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“Yes, sir, it is the grandest view in America, for you can see 
146 The Home of the Harpy-Eagle. [ March, 
an egg by many old authors, and was made the type of the genus 
Achlysia by Audouin. 
The adult swims actively about in the water, but before attain- 
ing maturity fixes to some plant and undergoes another molt 
without material change of form. 
Flydrachna belostome Riley—Larva. Hexapodous. Elliptic- 
ovoid. Pale red, with two dusky eye-spots. Legs 6-jointed including 
cox; terminal joint longest; claws very small. Surface closely 
and evenly studded with minute points. Palpi drawn beneath the 
head with the second joint greatly swollen, and showing like an 
eye at each anterior side of the body; the three terminal joints 
indistinctly separated and each armed with a sharp hook. Be- | 
coming elongate and more or less pyriform, with a distinct neck 
when fixed. Pupa formed within the bag-like body of larva. 
Adult—Average length when first from pupa 1.5 mm.; globular; 
color dark blood brown; body smooth; legs with but few hairs, 
terminal joint truncate and with two very minute claws; pal- 
pal claws very small and the thumb no longer. 
MERE ae eS et ig pe 
SER ate Ap ee a AT 
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THE HOME OF THE HARPY-EAGLE. 
BY FELIX L. OSWALD, M.D. 
OT far from the old military road which unites the Mexican 
esp of Tehuantepec with the cities of the table-land, there — 
stands an ancient Spanish fort, Æ Fortin de Tarija, which is now — 
Jn as a storehouse by the proprietors of a neighboring copper- — 
mine, while one of the larger outbuildings has been converted into — 
a tavern, where the stage coach stops for dinner. Posada de dos 
mares, Hotel of the two seas, seems rather a strange name for a 
posada situated in the heart of the Sierras, and at an elevation of a 
at least twelve thousand feet above the level of any sea, but if the 
traveler deigns to alight and share the ¢ad/e d'hôte of the humble 
posadero he may convince himself that the name is not so very 
inappropriate after all. . . 
“Forty minutes time before the coach starts Señor,” my host 
will observe after dinner, “and if you never passed here before, 
perhaps you would like me to accompany you to the Fort 
and show you the a/¢a vista, the grand view, from the parapet.” 3 
_ “Grand view? is there anything exceptionally grand about it?” 
