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and have acted accordingly. Is not this a good example of the 
influence of civilization and domestication upon the habits of 
birds, and can it all be attributed to instinct ?—C. Hart MERRIAM. 
Tur Myrrorpop Cermata Poisonous. — Day before yesterday, _ 
a lady in this house stepped on a Cermatia forceps when she was 
barefoot. It was evening and dark. She thought at first that she 
had trodden on a carpet tack, but it seemed quite different soon, 
more like the effects of a coal of fire. 
She lighted the gas, and saw the large Cermatia which bit her. 
It was wounded by her tread and had its revenge. It bit just be- 
tween the toes and her foot swelled a good deal, and pained her 
so much that she consulted me. But it yielded to an application 
of ammonia and camphor. 
The swelling and pain continued about thirty-six hours, keeping 
her awake most of one night.—Jostan Curtis, M. D., Wash- 
ington, D. C. 
Burp Crusracea.— A new and interesting genus of Decapod 
Crustacea has been described by Mr. Wood-Mason (ins the Pro- 
ceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, August, 1872) which 
was dredged in deep water off the eastern coast of the Andaman 
Islands, and which is closely allied to the northern European 
Nephrops Norvegicus, but, like Calocaris MacAndree of Bell, is 
destitute of the organs of vision.— Prof. Wesrwoop’s Address 
before the Entomological Society of London. 
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BIRDS AND CATERPILLARS. — [In the very timely article from Dr. 
Packard in the May Narurarisrt, Mr. C. J. Maynard is reported 
as stating, that no bird but the Baltimore oriole will feed on the 
cuckoo fairly exterminated this pest in an orchard near the college, 
though the tents existed in great numbers. Both the robin ane 
blue-jay will eat the larvæ of the Dryocampa senataria, and M 
eating them have done great service to our state. —A. J. Coi 
Agricultural College, Lansing, Mich. 
A sintstrat HeLIX ALBoLaBrIs.— While collecting land 
with Mr. Anson Allen of Orono, Maine, we found a sinistr 
of the Helix albolabris with the animal still alive in it, but 9 w 
lip had not been turned, Mr. Allen took it home and kept it till 
the lip was fully turned.— C. H. FERNALD. oH 
