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546 General Notes. [May, . 
been this season a sort of coincidence between lines of railroad © 
d abundance of cotton worms. The northern limit of these 
last, so far as I could learn, in central Mississippi, was just south 
of Holly Springs, in Marshall county, within a breadth of some 
fifteen miles, five east of the railroad and eight or ten west thereof. 
On the Mobile and Ohio road, in the eastern part of the State, 
the northern limit of the worms was Baldwyn, with a western 
spread of eighteen or twenty miles. Between Baldwyn and Boone- 
ville, the next station to the north, is an almost desert stretch of 
twelve miles of low, swampy land, nearly destitute of cotton, and 
but one night train runs northward. On the Mississippi Central, 
on the contrary, there were some three regular north-bound 
trains at night. 
Another coincidence is worthy of mention. In 1881 I could 
hear of Aletize, north of Tallahatchie, only at two points, both in 
this (Marshall) county. The first extended from the river north- 
ward four miles, and but a short distance east and west of the 
railroad. The second was four miles south of Holly Springs, on 
the eastern side of the track. In 1880 there were two points 
propagation of Aletia north of Tallahatchie; one near Waterford, 
the first station, four miles north, and the other, at Holly Springs, 
fourteen miles north of the river. The latter was in the neares 
cotton to the station, and nearly a mile east of it, the town lying 
to the west.— Fudge Lawrence Fohnson, Holly Springs, Miss. 
Insects as Foop ror Man.—Mr. Max Buchner's Contribu- 
tions to the Ethnography of the Bantus! contains the following 1- 
teresting notes which show that insects are by no means despi i 
as food by this tribe of negroes, which inhabit a large portion 
Southeastern Africa. 
cover, vessels are placed with funnel-shaped entrance 
vessels a vast number of white ants, males and females 
and roasted on the spot. They are’ considered a great 
even Mr. Buchner finding them very palatable. rous 
A large, fat, subterranean cricket, as well as a large Coleopte ) 
larva, living in hollow trees, are equally sought for and roasts" 
o fire. 366 » which 
ut it is especially a large caterpillar called “ugoung™ s |. 
is harvested ee the Ea Hie a held crop. It is about five cen, 
timeters long, black, with yellow rings, occurs on 
“belongs perhaps to the butterfly Crenis.” Whenever it a pice 
in large numbers the negroes march out in full force from a 
villages, camping out for weeks in the wilderness to ga out, the 2 
cure the crop. After the intestines have been pressed eS 
Hae 
i arecaught — 
delicacy, 
1 Das Ausland, January 8, 1883, p. 23, ft. 
