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mouth. They v'vould light all over your clothes; they filled the 

 house, they swarmed on the table, in the milk, sugar, flour, bread 

 and everywhere there was a crevice to get through. Take a gar- 

 ment from the wall, and you could shake out a cupful. It was a 

 veritable plague. In a shed where the boards had shrunk, and 

 the cracks been battened, the spaces between the shrunken boards 

 were packed full. They were flying for about two weeks, and then 

 they disappeared mostly, or they did not fly much, but were hid- 

 den under papers, clothing, and every available place. In No- 

 vember before the rains they spread around but not to fly — make 

 a light in the night, and you would see the floor nearly covered ; 

 lift up a rug and the floor under would be black, and they would 

 go scuttling away for some other hiding. I had occasion to take 

 up a floor board after they had apparently disappeared, stragglers 

 excepted. The house was upon underpinning two feet or more 

 from the ground. When the board was raised, there were the 

 overflow bugs piled up against a piece of underpinning, making 

 such a pile as a half bushel of grain would make. They were all 

 through the foothills the same, and much the same in Los An- 

 geles about Norfolk, but they did not fly much in the latter 

 place. In Los Angeles they seemed to be worse before the 

 "Santa Annas," a hot wind from the desert filling the air with 

 sand, and though the chickens were ever so hungry for insects, 

 they would not eat the overflow-bugs. You send for a sack of 

 meal, and when you open it you see a handful of overflow-bugs ; 

 in the night you put up your hand to brush one from your face, 

 and then you get up for soap and water to cleanse your hand. In 

 the morning if you put on garments without shaking you get 

 them quickly off and shake them." 



ANTHROPOLOGY. 1 



Ethnography of the Philippines.— The mere mention of the 

 Philippine islands carries our minds back to the childhood days 

 when we first learned of Magellan and his tragic fate. The people 

 of these islands are very we'll described in Stanford's Compendium 

 of Geography and Travel for Australasia. But the most th« >rougn 

 work will be found in the 67th supplement ( Lrganzungsheft) ot 

 Petermann's Mittheilungen, from the pen of Professor Ferd. 

 Blnmentritt, and dedicated to Dr. A. B. Meyer and Dr. F. JagOft 

 The work occupies 63 pages of the Mittheilungen. and is accom- 

 panied by a bibliography and an excellent colored chart. Ine 

 inhabitants of the Philippine islands are 1. Negritos; 2. Malays; 

 3. Chinese, Chinese metis and Japanese. 



^ The Negritos are the Aetas- or Itas, which together u nh the 

 Samangs. of Malacca and the Mincopees, of Andaman, con.-titu <- 

 the Negrito, or dwarf negro stock of this part of the world, to be 

 carefully distinguished from the Melanesian or Papuan negroes 



1 Edited by Professor Otis T. Mason, 1305 Q street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 



