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September 12, 1909. Two male moths emerged from their 

 cocoons. They are much smaller, and of a somewhat different 

 color than the originals. The male with wings extended, meas- 

 ures 50-52 mm. from apex to apex of the primaries, and the 

 length of body is 17-20 mm. 



The line markings are less pronounced, but the translucent 

 spots are well defined, but smaller than ra the originals. 



The larvae are quite hardy, and though our summer at Clay- 

 ton, N. Y., was a cold one, and the variations in temperature 

 at times considerable, but very few were lost. 



September 12-14, 1909. A number of males and females 

 emerged from their cocoons, and on the I4th a male and female 

 were found in copulation. 



September 15, 1909. The female fertilized on the I4th inst. 

 deposited sixty eggs, and on September 30, 1909, fifteen days 

 later these eggs hatched out. 



The young larvae were very small, but had the same general 

 characteristics as the previous brood. It will thus be seen that 

 Cricula trifenestra is double-brooded in these latitudes. 



Owing to my return to New York just at this time, I was 

 unable to follow up the development of the second brood of 

 larvae for lack of the necessary food-plant, but hope to renew 

 my investigations upon this subject during the summer of 

 1910.* 



THREE NEW RECORDS OF BLATTIDAE (ORTHOPTERA) FOR THE UNITED 

 STATES, by James A. G. Relm and Morgan Hebard. Ceratinoptera 

 diaphana (Fabricius). An adult female of this species, in the Hebard 

 Collection, was taken from under a coquina boulder in heavy scrub 

 in Key West, Florida, January 20, 1904, by the junior author. The 

 species has been recorded from Cuba and a number of the other 

 Greater and Lesser Antilles south as far as Barbados. Fhoctalia laevi- 

 gata (Palisot). A female of this West Indian species from Key 

 Largo, Florida, taken March, 1898 by C. L. Pollard, is in the collec- 

 tion of the United States National Museum. Blaberus cubensis Saus- 

 sure. A male of this species taken at Key West, Florida is in the 

 collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences. 



*Just after concluding this article, my attention was called to another 

 one relating to this subject, entitled "The Breeding of the Cricula 

 Larvae," by J. English, Entomologische Zeitschrift, Sept. 25, 1909, 

 p. 120, but as the results obtained by me differ somewhat from those 

 obtained by English, I feel justified in giving my observations pub- 

 licity. 



