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and to which they gave the name of Lloron, meaning a new-born 
infant, from the peculiar cries it made. Dr. Burmeister gives an 
amusing account of its capture, and the celerity with which it 
threw out the sand, supported by the hinder parts in its effort to 
escape by burrowing. 
C. retusus is larger than C. truncatus, and has one or two bits: 
tles on the hinder edge of the dorsal shield, with many bristles 
on the lower edge of the lateral portions. The upper part of the 
pelvic shield has pencils of bristles. There is a well-developed 
pinna. 
- RECORD OF AMERICAN ZOOLOGY. 
BY J. S. KINGSLEY. 
(Continued from Vol. XXV., page 355.) 
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Hints on the evolutión of the bristles, spines, and tubercles 
of certain caterpillars, apparently resulting from a change fon 
