The instance of its eating of the putrid remains of a garden snail, I witnessed on July 8.

1829.

My memorandum says, " this might be because that, in consequence of the heat now, no dewworms occur near the earths surface.

" On October 16.

1831, I met with a 51ens, accompanied by the following circum- stances :it lay dead in a bye footpath ; it had been partially crushed, and had in its mandibles a dead earwig, while the earwig had within its forceps a tarsus of, and off the left fore leg of, the Goerius.