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INSECTS OF THE CAVE. 
Fig. 124. 
Anopthalmus Tellkampjii of Erichson, a Carabid (Fig. 124), and 
Adelops liirtus Tellkampf (Fig. 125) allied to Catops, one of the 
Silphidse or burying beetle family. The Anopthalmus is of a pale 
reddish horn color, and is totally blind ; ^ in the Adelops, which 
is grayish brown, there are two pale spots, which may be rudi- 
mentary eyes, as Tellkampf and Erichson suggest. No Hemip- 
tera (bugs) have yet been found either in the caves of this coun- 
try or Europe. Two wingless grasshoppers (generally called 
crickets) like the common species found under stones {Ceutlio- 
pliilus maculatus Harris) , have been found in onr caves ; one is 
the Hadenoecus suhterra'neus (Fig. 126 nat. size) described by Mr. 
Scndder, and very abundant in Mammoth Cave. The other spe- 
cies is C. stygia Scndder, from Hickman’s 
cave, near Hickman’s land- 
ing, upon the Kentucky river. 
It is « closely allied to the 
Mammoth Cave species. Ac- 
cording to Mr. Scndder, the 
specimens of C. stygia were 
found by Mr. A. Hyatt “ in 
the remotest corner of Hickman’s Cave, 
in a sort of a hollow in the rock, not par- 
ticularly moist, but having only 
a sort of cave dampness. They 
were found a few hundred feet 
from the sunlight, living exclu- 
sively upon the walls.” Even 
the remotest part of that cave is 
not so gloomy but that some 
sunlight penetrates it. 
The other species is found both in Mammoth Cave, and in the 
adjoining Vfhite’s Cave. It is found throughout the cave, and 
most commonly (to quote Mr. Scndder) “about ‘ Martha’s Vine- 
yard’ and in the neighborhood of ‘Richardson’s Spring’ where 
they were discovered jumping about with the greatest alacrity 
upon the walls, where only they are found, and even when dis- 
*In Erharclt’s cave, Montgomery Co., Virginia, Prof. Cope found “four or five spec- 
imens of a new Anopthalmus, the A. pusio of Horn, at a distance of not more than three 
hundred feet from its mouth. The species is small, and all were found together under 
a stone. Their movements were slow, in considerable contrast to the activity of ordi- 
nary Carabidse.” Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 18(59. p. 178. 
Phora, 
Fig. 125. 
Anophthalmus Tellkampjii, 
