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14 2 - —36 yrs. No insects found. 
143 - —36 yrs. (Infant.) No insects found. 
144 - —36 yrs. (Infant.) No insects found. 
145 - —56 yrs. (Infant.) No insects found. 
146. —Coffin so decayed and grave so wet, no definite results obtainable. 
147. —Coffin so decayed and grave so wet, no definite results obtainable. 
148- —Murder case, coffin filled with all sorts of rubbish ; not examined. 
149 - —Negro, aet. 18 yrs. (?) drowned, 7th St. wharf, August 29th. Body recovered 
August 30th, inclosed in tin-lined case August 31st. Examined at Morgue 
September 2d. Larvm taken Irom hair, face and clothing, September 16th 
bred : 
Diptera, Muscidse, Compsomyia macellaria Fabr. 
“ “ Lucilia ccesar Linn. 
I 5°-—7 yrs. 3 mos. Grave 4 ft., moist, sand and clay. Premature birth. 
No cadaver found in coffin, nothing to indicate that it had ever been placed 
therein. Clothes nicely folded in bottom of coffin. A most thorough search 
revealed but the following : 
Thysanura, undetermined. 
Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Eleusispallida Lee., 1 specimen. 
“ Larvae, undetermined. 
Diptera, Phoridae, puparium. 
Note 3. Numbers 101-104, 118, 129, 133, 134, 135, 138, 140, 
141 graves prepared as explained in note 2, page 217. 
Note 4. The undetermined Coleopterous larvae mentioned in the 
above lists belong, according to Mr. Schwarz, to but three species : 
Actobms umbripennis Lee., Eleusis pallida Lee. and Ehizophagus 
scalpturatus Mann. Owing to the illness of Mr. Schwarz, the deter¬ 
minations could not be specified in each case. 
Grouped and arranged in systematic order, the fauna of the one 
hundred and fifty disinterments studied, as thus far determined, stands 
as follows : 
GASTROPODA. 
Hehcodiscus lineatus Say. Zonitoides minus cuius Binn. 
Zonitoides arboreus Say. Vitrea electrina Gould. 
Vermes, undetermined. 
CRUSTACEA. 
Armadillidium vulgare Ltr., many undetermined. 
ARACHNID A. 
Pseudoscorpiones, Chelanops tristis Bks. 
Araneida. 
Agalena, sp. Lepthyphanles , sp. 
A. ncevia Htz. Lophocarenum , sp. 
