wn fellow, about The pinche (Hapale edipus, Wagn.) is quite the op- sists of a powerful incandescent lamp inclosed in a cyl- the size of a small cat, healthy ‘and lively, that is, as posite of the bristly, bearded, dark, uniformly colored far as it is possible to speak of liveliness in connection… … ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN. his nature is so great that nothing could force this crea- which is of thick glass, allows the luminous rays to creature. Its white limbs show very prettily against pass through it, and light up the successive strata ture to make a quick movement, to say nothing of a the dark…
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