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‘ was found under the husk of an ear of corn. I found twenty 
about one ear, and have seen them about corn in several places 
in this garden. Several were found with their heads buried to 
the bottom of a kernel of corn, and bodies standing out from the 
ear. I think it is the same insect as is found in Pittsfield, South 
Hadley, Newton, sheik and other places, and called the ‘corn 
bug’ in our papers 
ANTHROPOLOGY .'* 
CRANIA UTILIZED AS CINERARY Urns IN A BurtAt MOUND IN 
Froripa.—In opening a burial mound at Cade’s Pond, a small 
body of water situated about two miles northeastward of Santa 
Fe Lake, Florida, the writer found two instances of cremation, in 
each of which the skull of the subject, which was unconsumed, 
was used as the depository of his ashes. The mound contained 
besides a large number of human burials, the bones being much 
decayed. With them were deposited a great number of vessels 
of pottery, many of which are ee in brilliant colors, chiefly 
red, yellow and brown, and so of them ornamented with in- 
dented patterns, displaying Rae a 2 little skill in the ceramic art, 
though they are reduced to fragments. ‘The first of the skulls re- 
ferred to was exhumed at a depth of two and a half feet. It rested 
on its apex (base uppermost), and was filled with fragments of 
half-incinerated human bones mingled with dark-colored dust, 
and the sand which invariably sifts into crania under such circum- 
stances. Immediately beneath the skull lay the greater part of a 
human tibia presenting the peculiar compression known as platy- 
number of other human bones, probably constituting an entire 
individual... 
In the second instance of this peculiar mode in cremation, the 
cranium was discovered on nearly the opposite side of the mound, 
at a depth of two feet, and, like the former, resting on its apex. It 
was filled with a black mass—the residuum of burnt human bones 
mingled with sand. At three feet to the eastward lay the shaft of 
a flattened tibia which presents the latitudinal index of .527. 
Both the skulls were free from all action of fire, and though sub- 
sequently crumbling to pieces on their removal, the writer had 
opportunity to observe their strong resemblance to the small 
Michigan The same resemblance was perceptible in the other — 
crania: belonging to this mound. The small, narrow, retreating _ 
frontal, prominent parietal protuberances, rather protubera rant occi- 
pital, which was not in the least compressed, the well-defined su- __ 
praciliary ridges, and the superior border of the orbits praene 
a quadrilateral outline, were all particularly noticed. The 
facial bones including the maxillaries were wanting. ‘ 
_ 1 Edited by Prof. -orp T: MASON, Columbian College, Washington, D. C. 
