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rather larger than the specimen, with the apex cut off. A vigor- 
ous spider will soon project its head through the aperture; when 
in this position it should be blocked behind with cotton or wool 
slightly wetted. The cone can then be gummed to a slip, apex 
upwards. 
Many insects can be arranged in the same way for the obser- 
vation of facial movements, and such front views admit of inter- 
attribute a full share to the terminal whorl of hairs to which the 
oney adheres, and therefrom is withdrawn. Mr. Briant, on the 
other hand, from experiment and study of the structures, is in- 
clined to the view that the honey is drawn into the mouth through 
the inside of the tongue by means of a complicated pumping 
action of the organ, aided by the closely contiguous parts. 
We might add that Réaumur states that the bee does not suck 
up the liquid sweets but laps them up with its long slender hairy 
tongue, A better view than Mr. Briant’s is, it seems to us, that 
of Shuckard, quoted in our “ Guide to the Study of Insects.” 
Entomotocicat Notrs.—The number last issued of the Trans- 
actions of the American Entomological Society, the first of Vol. 
XI, is no less valuable than its predecessors. It contains Dr. 
S. W. Williston’s tables, or rather synopses, of two groups of the 
and figures new species of Psocidæ from near Philadelphia, 
among them a brown variety of Atropos divinitaria, and a new 
form, Atropos purpurea; also a new genus, Dorypteryx (D. pal- 
