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_ sometimes entire and sometimes divided by a median pale line. 
_ A laterai area marbled with transverse short black and white lines, 
_ and with a row of conspicuous black spots. A row of dark spots 
_ down on the sides. Head reddish testaceous; abdominal feet 
= reddish. 
~ Larva after 2d or 3d moult—Length 25™™ Markings as in the 
_ full-grown caterpillar, straw-yellow, with a broad dorsal black 
_ Stripe, and a broader dark lateral stripe; this stripe interrupted 
_ by transverse rune-like white markings breaking up the band into 
Similar black runes, 
= A caterpillar moulted under my eyes; the sides of the head fell 
_ offaway from the rest of the body, and in an instant the anterior 
half of the body was pulled out of the old skin; I do not un- 
_ derstand where it went to; then in a minute more, stopping occa- 
sionally to rest, it withdrew itself from the remainder of its old 
_ skin, holding on by its hind legs until they were extricated from 
_ the cast skin. The whole process was but the work of one min- 
ute. It was but little larger than previous; the prothoraci¢ seg- 
_ Ment was less spotted and the head much paler than before. B 
= 4P. M., or about four or five hours after, the head was red-colored, 
and the six prothoracic black spots had appeared.—A. S. Packard. 
tred under the turf at Caribou islan 
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ind, a bluish-green species k 
iS concolorous with hie body: while the legs are yellowish.—A. 
Packard, 
Dancers prom THE ExcREMENT OF F Lies.—The 
‘oyal Microscopical Society for August, prints an "E 
Grassi’s experiments which show that flies are agents in Prees 
fusion of infectious maladies, epidemics, and even aeri spanar 
„Yn a plate on the table-of his laboratory he soma atra 
ber of the eggs of a human Nematode parasite (Trichocephatus). 
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