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Amelia R. Woodall, corresponding, and Miss Katherine Koch, recording secretary; Miss Mamie Matthews, treasurer of the young people's society, Mrs. Landis Sanna, Mrs. Margaret Gardner, editor Trox Bankston of West Point and J. J. Williams of Chatterton, were sent to Washington to march in the parade on March 3.
Tropic-birds, white only when mature. Tropics, freshwater fishes of the. Trout, proportion of the sexes in; male, pugnacity of the. Trox sabulosus, stridulation of. Truth, not rare between members of the same tribe; more highly appreciated by certain tribes. Tulloch, Major, on the immunity of the negro from certain fevers. Tumbler, almond, change of plumage in the. Turdus merula, young of.
A very small beetle, the Trox, has the imprescriptible mission of purging the earth of the rabbits' fur rejected by the fox. Here structure explains the function. The intestine of the grub of the rose-beetle "is a veritable triturating mill, which transforms vegetable matter into mould; in a month it will digest a volume of matter equal to several thousand times the initial volume of the grub."
Smith, F., on the Cynipidae and Tenthredinidae; on the relative size of the sexes of Aculeate Hymenoptera; on the difference between the sexes of ants and bees; on the stridulation of Trox sabulosus; on the stridulation of Mononychus pseudacori. Smynthurus luteus, courtship of. Snakes, sexual differences of; mental powers of; male, ardency of. "Snarling muscles."
Some species stridulate very loudly, so that when Mr. F. Smith caught a Trox sabulosus, a gamekeeper, who stood by, thought he had caught a mouse; but I failed to discover the proper organs in this beetle. I am indebted to Mr. In Oryctes it is seated on the pro-pygidium; and, according to the same entomologist, in some other Dynastini, on the under surface of the elytra.
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