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tkffi e w Sta S<t ing ’? ndha T thrown them in heaps along the edges o' 
the field. These heaps I have been examini™ ”„S v ? 
found large numbers of dead bugs, but no live ones’. To^v^™ Way Jt 
tur“ e they^St|hot S^ife^nUfter^nl Eft 
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To ;^ 1 topped up stalks by the roots, examining each 
thought is that they have gone below the surface of the ground w 
when we consider that our cold weather came so suddenly upon us 
four inchef r ft t le ground was frozen to the depth of three or 
penetrated it 7 Se ® mS P ° S W@ that the Ch inch-bugs could have 
theWbS““^^^ CUri0US observation bearing upon 
t r 0 J im3 °? our first f r °sfcs, while gathering hazel nuts in 
bfente^d info bvT' ^ 1“ neari 7 e /^ instance where a nut had 
v.i~n 5ST",wis;r “• partiy 'Xsft&sr. 
mark' concludes his let ter with the following practical re- 
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to tVehl StalkS are ^r° U ^to b e urMhfc e hTnTh C bu g ftfken 
to their legs or wings, and left for parts unknown.’ g 
is tint qllli" /’I' 18 a3rera arkable in these statements of Mr Patten 
dea tk 6 ^h. lnc h-hugs which he discovered appear to have been 
Had ’ they th , e} * dle a natural or unnatural death ? 
killedSi v jj at the natural term of their lives, or were they 
unknowncaus ^'2 smany^f tl °° ld ° r hy some other and 
well nro tooted As .many °f these insects were found in tolerably 
Which had bin -i 1?nS ’ • t , bat . ( 1S ’ 1 under the sheaths of cornstalk 
coud h S2 beek kmed ln by P1 th S ’ fi d ,° eS ,‘? 0t Seem P robable that they 
plausibleExplanation of *L the fi T rSt °° ld sna P of winter. The most 
were the old 1! f! ® T e I , can g,ve - IS , that these dead insects 
thfir natural HfeswhnsTTb "“r W t hlCh r had arrived at the end of 
to perpetuate the ’race in H Instln ots of the new brood, which are 
out more secure and permanent rXat" 8 5 ’ ear ’ had led them t0 Seek 
s IbouUoleUn rbinTlh ' de r?‘ late in the fall, and when winter 
5 " U S S : l ] ke most other insects, seek secure and 
