. Annual report of the Trustees of the State Museum of Natural History for the year ... Science; Museums. (A.) SOME EXTRA-LIMITAL INSECTS.^ Carpocapsa saltitans Westwood, And its Jumping Seeds. (Ord. Lepidopteka : Fam. Tokteicid^.) Westwood: in Proe. Ashmolean Soc, iii, 1857, pp. 137-8; in Trans. Lend. Ent. See, ser. 2, iv, 1858, p. 27; in Gard. Chron., 1859, p. 909. Lucas: in Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. iii, vi, 1859 —Bull., pp. 10, 33, 41, 44 (as Carpocapsa Behaislana); ib., vii, pp, 561-566 (as G. JDeshaisiana). Lintnee: in Albany Argus, for Oct. 11,1875; in Proc. Alb. Institute, ii, 1878,
. Annual report of the Trustees of the State Museum of Natural History for the year ... Science; Museums. (A.) SOME EXTRA-LIMITAL INSECTS.^ Carpocapsa saltitans Westwood, And its Jumping Seeds. (Ord. Lepidopteka : Fam. Tokteicid^.) Westwood: in Proe. Ashmolean Soc, iii, 1857, pp. 137-8; in Trans. Lend. Ent. See, ser. 2, iv, 1858, p. 27; in Gard. Chron., 1859, p. 909. Lucas: in Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. iii, vi, 1859 —Bull., pp. 10, 33, 41, 44 (as Carpocapsa Behaislana); ib., vii, pp, 561-566 (as G. JDeshaisiana). Lintnee: in Albany Argus, for Oct. 11,1875; in Proc. Alb. Institute, ii, 1878, pp. 264-266. in Count. Gent, xlix, 1884, p. 757; in Bull. Brook. Entomolog. Soc, vii, 1884, p. 92. Eiley: in Trans. St. Louis Acad. ScL, iii, 1875, p. cxc.; in Amer. Nat., x, 1876, pp. 216-218; in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 188, pp. 632-635, fig. Dodge: in Field and Forest, ii, 1876. p. 54-5. Feenald: Cat. Tortric. N. A., 1882, p. 54, No. 396; in Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, x, 1882. The Seeds. The so-called " Mexican jumping seeds," whenever observed, excite so much curiosity that the following information is offered of them. The seeds are about four-tenths of an inch long, and of about the same width, smooth on the outer surface, bisected by lines which show them to be two-valved, and of a form indicating that they had been united in a globular three-celled ovary. In shape they are sub-triangular, their two inner sides plain and meeting at an obtuse angle, and the outer side rounded. They are shown in two views in the figure, at e and/. They are known to the inhabitants of Sonora as " brincaderos," meaning jumpers. History of tlie Insect. Their peculiar jumping movements have made them objects of much interest since they were first brought to scientific notice in the year 1857, through specimens sent from Mexico by the British Charge d'Affaires, and exhibit- ed to the Entomologi- cal Society of London by the secretary. The seeds were said to be a species of Ewp
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