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rugated collar. Running down the outside of the pitcher it 
passed up the tendril and on to the under laminar surface, 
where its presence would have been perfectly unsuspected had 
any insectivorous birds been in the neighbourhood, and where 
also, as Mr. Symington Grieve has suggested, it would have 
been sheltered from the sun’s heat in the daytime. I gently 
scratched the upper surface above where it was, and it at once 
retraced its steps in a hurried manner, till it reached the outer 
surface of the pitcher. Here it rested for a time sipping the 
juice which exuded from alluring glands, but it soon passed 
to its old position on the collar. Though disturbed a few 
minutes before, it seemed quite to forget its fright, and again 
fell to cleaning the marginal gland-orifices with the utmost 
care and gusto. It rested now and again only to resume 
operations, once making a short excursion to the lid-surface, 
which appeared to me to offer far greater attraction, but 
seemingly regarding this as inferior it returned to the collar. 
Constantly trying to get on to the conducting surface and as 
often foiled, it again ran up along the tendril to the under side 
of the lamina. Again I scratched this, and the former course 
was taken, the former efforts made. I was greatly struck by 
the careful way in which, while attempting to pass into the 
pitcher, it hooked its two strong hind-legs over the reflexed 
collar-margin, and by the ability it showed to pull itself back 
by these alone, the second as well as the first pair of legs often 
being inside the pitcher. Tired of its movements after the 
fifth excursion, and finding that twilight was approaching, 
I finally jerked it into the cavity with my pencil, as it hung 
on the ridge exploring the interior. In its fall it quickly 
spread out its long legs against the sides of the conducting 
surface and struggled violently to get out. For a short time 
this proved useless — it rather slipped deeper; but after one 
severe effort, it hooked the claws of its fore-legs over the 
corrugated rim and pulled itself out. I considered that it had 
faiily earned liberty and it speedily moved off. Before leaving 
I looked into the cavity and saw two decaying cockroaches in 
the bottom. Returning next morning with Professor Dickson 
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