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CEASPEDOSOMA VAGABUNBA. 
wanderings, liis object still seems pni’poseless : 1 
have not fathomed the mystery of his life. Un- 
heeded, he passes by the charming bells of Mazus 
13ulchellus, a pigmy beauty, whose blossoms nearly 
touch the earth ; he 2 >ushes under bits, of straw and 
withered blades of grass ; he evades the fallen 
cotton pods, the beards of barley, and the awns 
of rice ; he disregards the thistle-down and the 
feathered seeds that lie in his way ; he Avill reject a 
putrid land-crab, and turn up his (metaj^horical) 
nose at a dead snail ; he inclines towards a crushed 
fungus, but on second thoughts is not partial to 
toadstools; he makes for a decayed fragment of 
wood, but he does not banquet on that. As he 
crawls, he perpetually forms “lines of grace and 
beauty,'' by the lateral undulations of his mobile 
body. I have named him Craspedosoma vagabimda ! 
