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At Sea Cliff the shore is sandy and often quite stony. Here and 
there are patches of salt grass (Spartina) growing between tide-marks, 
but always nearer to the high than to the low water marks. In muddy 
places sometimes whole acres are covered by the grass. The tide 
here rises seven feet, and the roots of the lowest patches of salt grass 
are, at ordinary high-tides, covered by about three feet of water. Such 
a patch would be covered for about two and a half or three hours t wice 
a day. The roots form a sod, and embedded in the sod is a common 
mussel (Modiola plicatula); Melampvs bidentatus and species of Lit- 
torinea are common, and barnacles and seaweed grow on the stones in 
the sod. Fiddler crabs ( Gelasimus) dig their holes here. Several insects 
and arachnids are quite common, such as Anurida mariUma, an Antho- 
myiid liy, a Curculionid, a species of Bembidium, Bdella marina, Cliel- 
anops tristis, and several undescribed mites. 
"The soil is thoroughly drenched with salt water, and in it are various 
marine worms (Nereis, Halodrillus, etc.). The Ooccid was first discov- 
ered in April, 1894, on the roots of a patch of salt grass which at high 
tide is covered by about two feet of water. They were usually in little 
cavities, sometimes hundreds grouped together. They are from one to 
two inches below the surface, sometimes just under loose stones. An 
undescribed species of Trombidium preys upon them. Later I found 
that it occurred in some very large salt meadows near Glen Cove, near 
Glenwood and at Eoslyn. I have examined the roots of a closely allied 
grass which grows sparsely above high water, but found no Coccids on 
them. 
"The bay on which Sea Cliff, Glen Cove, Glenwood, and Eoslyn are 
situated is known as Hempstead Harbor, and it is a branch of Long- 
Island Sound. The bay at this point is a mile wide. 
"The salt grass is used by clam diggers and fishermen to thatch out- 
houses, for bedding, packing clams, fish, etc." Nathan Banks. 
AN ABNORMAL TIGER SWALLOW-TAIL. 
By L. O. Howard. 
The Division has been in correspondence during the past winter with 
Mr. W. A. Harshbarger, of Washburn College, Topeka, Kans., con- 
cerning an extraordinary specimen of the common tiger swallow-tail 
(Papilio turnus=Jasoniades glaucus) which he reared from the larva last 
summer, and Mr. Harshbarger was finally good enough to send us the 
specimen, which we have had figured both in colors and in black and 
white and present the illustrations herewith. The specimen was reared 
from a larva given to Mr. Harshbarger by some non-entomological 
acquaintance. It was kept for a short time in a bottle of water, but in 
spite of this half drowning transformed to chrysalis and eventually 
issued as an adult. Mr. Harshbarger states that he saw during the 
