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Show Snow and Ice Worms. There uro at present known In the world approximately 00 species nnd varieties of suow and Ice worms. Sexually Sex-ually mature specimens, yellowish to a dark reddish brown or black In color, about an Inch long and one-twentieth Inch In diameter wero found In February Febru-ary and April (1010) abundantly mi tho open snow fields of Mount Rainier, at an elevation of 2,750 to 0,000 feet above sen level. They also occurred on the suow on the mountain slope protected by a dense forest of fir nnd hemlock. These worms have not thus fur been found on solid Ice nor on' the glaciers, .though they occur on the' snow below the Ice from and outshlo of .the, lateral moraines of the Nlsqually glncler. Tho snow on which they were found Is not' permanent through the entire son urn, 'but melts with the coining of summer, and It therefore appears that a p'trt of their life mtist bo spent on or lu tho ground. |