KNORTZ, knorts, KARL (1841— ). A Ger man-American author and educator, born at tarbenheim near Wetzlar, where he studied at the Royal Gymnasium. He graduated at Heidelberg University in 1863, and went the same year to the United States. Be taught German language and literature at Detroit (1866-68), at Oshkosh till 1871, at Cincinnati, and New York (1882), and also edited German papers in Cincinnati and In dianapolis. In 1892 he was made superintendent of the German department in the public schools of Evansville, Ind. He translated Ernagelinc, Hiawatha, and The Courtship of Miles Standish (1872), and, in 1879. Whittier's Snow Boum/and Whitman's Leares of Grass, and he published in Berlin a Geschiehte der nordamerikanisch•n Lit teratur (1891). Besides literary essays and works upon child education. he wrote Marche,' /curd %"(liten (kr no•damerikanischen Indianer ( 1S71 ) : A merikanisehe Skizzen ( 1876 ) ; Modern Mexican Lyrics (1880) ; Aus den, Wigwam (1880) ; /capita/ und Arbeit in _Amerika (1881); and A merikanischc Lcbensbildcr (1884).
KNOT (also gnat, dialectic knot, knot derived, according to popular etymology, from AS. Caul. Canute, who was said to have been very fond of the bird). A cosmopolitan snipe (7'Hr/flu coati tus), 10 or II inches long, and more than 20 across the wings. The upper parts are black. white, and rufous; in summer the muter parts are rufous, while in winter they are white. The breeding habits are almost unknown, and the eggs are known only from a single speeinwn found by Gen. A. \V. Greely. U. S. A.. and de scribed as light pea-green closely spotted with brown. Knots are generally found in floeks. feed
ing on small crustaceans and mollusks. and prob ing tli ground like snipes. In summer the knot is to be found only in the far North. where it seems to be circumpolar, but in winter it mi grates far to the south in all directions from its summer home, so that it is found along the shores all the continents. It is a favorite shore-bird with gunners. who know it as 'robin-snipe' and 'gray snipe.' and its flesh is delicious.
Any one of the large assem blage of moths included in the family Phyeitiche. The name is derived from the fact that the males frequently have the last joint of the anten me swollen. The Phyeitithe are usually sombre colored little moths with rather na•row fore wings, and broad hind wings. Their Larvae are very diverse in their habits. Sonic, like the larva' of Ephestia, infest groceries, feeding upon dried figs or in tiour-mills upon flour and grain. Others inhabit silken cases on the bark of trees. Still others ;Mack living fruit. One is the cran berry fruit-worm (Mineola mieeinii). Others web leaves together, as the rascal leaf-crumpler (Mineola indiginella). Still others, like Dahruma coceidirora, feed upon living One member of this group (Jfrasfria scitala) preys upon the black scale of the olive and orange in Southern Europe, and has recently been intro duced into California for -the purpose of helping fruit-growers to destroy injurious scale-insects.