But before the sun canBS out we did some looking about. No clams, of 
course. However, in turning over a stone I came upon a very smll red-ai»3- 
white shrink much like the Stenopus Hispiflus, but without its long banded 
arras. I put it in a coffee can, ars3 it will have to go into a pill bottle. 
It may be a new thing. It could, of course, be an immBtiu:e Hispidus. And 
then there was an old moth-eaten conch shell Having about in the grass on 
the back of a big hermit. In the top of it among sOTue sea growths was a 
well-used hole. In a moment or two a green head appeared in the hole, 
and two eyes on stalks. A green mantis was using the upper floor of the 
shell as a home, I offered it a bite of minnow. The shrine grabbed at 
the minnow tail and tried to drag the whole thing inside its den, but I 
refused to let go. So he scissored off wl®t he could. After a little of 
this I put down a small minnow bit as an offering. He appeared at once 
and vanished with it. Later when I offered him another piece he banged 
it away. 
A mantis in a peranibulating house is too good a bet to miss, so I took 
house and all to the shooting area and put it In the enclosure. A demoiselle 
Immediately took notice and came to see wliat it was. The mantis would c3:^uch 
and wait for her to come close, and then slap at her when she went by, she 
being twenty times larger tlmn the shrimp. 
Learned a msy thingi lobsters eat starfish — at least they eat some 
of them. I had put a smallish green -mottled star into the shooting enclosure 
and this morning its arras had been reduced to nubs. From tirm to tine the 
lobster would pick it up, and holding it on edge would chew on it. He 
