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Color of living insect — Face bluish white, mottled with brown. 

 Cheeks blue, with an oblique darker patch. Eyes prominent, dark 

 brown, hind margins dotted with black lines. Occiput with a triangular 

 black spot, apex forward, bounded on each side by bright yellow. Sides 

 of the thorax margined anteriorly with yellow. A black stripe behind 

 the eye runs backward to the last transverse incision of pronotum. 

 Below this stripe the sides are purplish blue, marked posteriorly with 

 red. Disk of pronotum brown, margined with blue. Elytra gray, darkest 

 at base. Disk white, containing a row of large black spots. Similar but 

 smaller spots unequally distributed over the rest of the elytra. Apex 

 dusky. Wings transparent, with white veins. Posterior femora externally 

 red, with three oblique black bands. Inside and lower sulcus bright red. 

 Upper edge bluish gray, with three broad black patches. Apex gray 

 above, white outside, blue within, and marked with the usual black 

 crescent-shaped patch. Hind tibiae bright blue, with a narrow white 

 annulation near the knee. Tarsi blue above, white below. Anterior legs 

 yellowish, mottled above with blue. Abdomen white, with the anterior 

 part of each segment red, and a small black spot on each side. Beneath 

 bluish white. Antennae light brown. 



Length about one inch; length of elytra, .80 inch ; length of hind 

 femora, .55 inch. Habitat Glencoe, Nebraska. Appears in latter part 

 of June. 



SUGARING FOR MOTHS. 



BY O. S. WESTCOTT, MAYWOOD, COOK CO., ILL. 



The various preparations which have been recommended by different 

 writers seem to be successful enough in attracting nocturnal Lepidoptera, 

 while the poisons employed for quieting them seem to fail in one 01 more 

 essential particulars. Cyanide of Potassium, whether alone or prepared 

 with Plaster of Paris, does not act with sufficient readiness to prevent 

 strong-bodied moths from fluttering so long as in a great measure to spoil 

 the beauty of their vestiture, while the application of chloroform at night 

 is attended with considerable inconvenience. T have found a plan like 

 the following to work best in practice. 



