SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOLUME 97. NUMBER 4 



THE FEEDING MECHANISM OF 

 ADULT LEPIDOPTERA 



BY 



JOHN B. SGHMITT 



Assistant Entomologist, New Jersey Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, New Brunswick 



(Publication 3448) 



CITY OF WASHINGTON 



PUBLISHED BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



JANUARY 10, 1938 



