Page:The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 3 (1899).djvu/545

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SPAWNING OF BOMBINATOR PACHYPUS.
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well-developed, and transverse lines across femur and tibia. In sixty-nine days the metamorphosis was completed.

This development took place in the garden without any covering or artificial warmth, the tadpoles feeding most voraciously on raw meat.

The first two broods will metamorphose this year, but at the time I write there are many whose development has practically ceased, and will probably not be resumed until the return of spring.