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escapes the following spring. Occasionally some of the moths appear in 

 October or November, but this rarely occurs with us. 



The male moths have large and delicate wings and feathered antennae, 

 as seen in the figure. The fore wings, which measure when spread about 

 an inch and a half across, are of a rusty buff color, sprinkled with brown- 

 ish dots, with two transverse wavy brown lines and a central brown dot. 

 The hind wings are pale with a brown dot about their middle. 



The female, also shown in the figure, is a wingless, spider-like creature, 

 with slender thread-like antennae, yellowish white body, sprinkled on the 

 sides with black dots, and with two black spots on the top of each seg- 

 ment excepting the last, which has only one. The eggs are oval, of a 

 pale color, and covered with a net-work of raised lines. 



LONG STINGS. 



BY FREDERICK CLARKSON, NEW YORK CITY. 



In the May number of the Canadian Entomologist there is a very 

 interesting paper under this caption, contributed by Mr. Harrington, 

 giving an account of the habits of the Rhyssa atrata and lunator. These 

 Long Stings the past summer were very abundant at Oak Hill, the resi- 

 dence of Mr. Herman T. Livingston, in the township of Livingston, 

 Columbia Co., New York, and furnished me with a good opportunity of 

 studying their habits. While I agree with all that has been so well 

 observed and so cleverly presented by your correspondent, I am somewhat 

 disposed to differ from the commonly accepted opinion that these insects 

 deposit their ova on the larvae of wood-borers. My experience has 

 demonstrated that while it may be a fact that these insects deposit their 

 ova on the larvae of the Uroceridae or other borers, they do not com- 

 monly do so. In every case that came under my observation, the long 

 ovipositor, instead of penetrating through the burrow of a Tremex or 

 other wood borer, entered through wood that had not been previously 

 attacked, and though I failed to discover the egg deposited, I am very 

 much of the opinion that the deposition is oftentimes, if not generally 

 made regardless of the contact with a larva. My observations were 

 necessarily confined to such visitations from these insects as were made to 

 a somewhat decayed stump of a beech tree, for though there were a 



