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pale yellowish. Coxae whitish transparent, the legs a fuscous 

 whitish transparent; claws slender, strongly curved, the anterior 

 and mid-pair unidentate, the pulvilli about two-thirds the length 

 of the claws. Cienitalia; basal clasp segment moderately long, 

 stout, the basal lobe long, triangular, finely setose; terminal clasp 

 segment long, slender; dorsal plate short, triangularly emarginate, 

 the lobes obliqueK- and roundly truncate, the ventral plate long, 

 broad, truncate or slightly emarginate apically; style long, stout, 

 roundly acute apically. 



Female — Length 1.5 mm. Antenna? nearly as long as the 

 body, sparsely haired, fuscous yellowish; 14 segments, the fifth 

 with a stem one-third the length of the cylindric basal enlargement, 

 which latter has a length about two and one-half times its diameter; 

 terminal segment slightly produced and tapering to a broadly 

 rounded apc.x. Mesonotum dark yellowish brown. Scutellum and 

 postscutcllum \ellowish. Abdomen a light fuscous yellowish. 

 Haltcres yellowish. Coxa- and femora basally yellowish white, 

 the distal portion of femora and tibia? a light fuscous straw, the 

 tarsi darker. O\ipositor short, the terminal lobes irregularly 

 ovate and rather thickl>- setose. Other characters practically as 

 in the male. Type Cecid. a2G~9. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Notes from Clemson College, S.C. 



On Aug. 8th. a large number of specimens of Anosia plexippus 

 were taken in a pasture near the College. The\' were the strag- 

 glers of a swarm of this species passing through on that date. 

 They disappeared two days later. 



There was an outbreak of Army Worms {Laphygnia frugiperda) 

 in August. The principal disturbance occurred throughout the 

 northern and eastern counties of the State. As usual, the attack 

 began on crab grass and sorghum. In some sections peas were 

 slightly damaged. The generation went into pupation Aug. 20-30, 

 having done no serious damage. During this outbreak the larvae 

 of Calosoma calidum pla\ed an unusually conspicuous role. They 



