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PSYCHE. 



[November 1S94. 



ventral surface marked by fine transverse 

 anastomosing reticulations. Mucrones end- 

 ing in a curved claw wliich is armed with a 

 prominent tooth near the end. 



Legs ratlier long, purple, plumose hairy. 

 Claws stout longitudinally, finely striate, 

 and bearing three small teeth on the inner 

 edge, and one on tlie outer edge. A single 

 tenent liair clubbed at the end and extending 

 nearly the length of tlie claw. Shorter claw 

 plain. 



Common about the windows of the 

 college buildings wliere it has climbed 

 to the fourth stoiv in Coburn Hall 



about a window, within a foot of a 

 large steam coil and appeared to enjoy 

 it. Very active, running by starts. 

 Very restless in captivity. A good 

 jumpei'. A large number observed 

 and examined during 1S90-94, Orono, 

 Me., F. L. Harvey. 



This insect is more like Seira ti/gro- 

 macnlata Lubbock than anv described 

 species, agreeing in size, habit and 

 numerous clubbed hairs, but differing 

 in the color and arrangement of the 

 color patches. 



It mav be known by its dirtv yellow 

 ground color and markings of dark 

 purple, like that of a dark grape or 



Seira ininiica : scales, x 150 and 250. 



pliun, and by its long antennae, long 

 fourth abdominal segment, and shaggy 

 appearance. It is named Seira mim- 

 Seira mimica, X 30. ica, becausc the form of the four pos- 



terior segments of the body, tiie color 

 which was built only four years ago. markings and the bowed hairs com- 

 pound also about paper waste in the. bined suggest the head of a rat or 

 cellar and among books on library squirrel. 



slielves. It loves warm, dry situations. The drawings of the insect ( X 30) 



Several spent the winter in the cracks were made by Mr. J. H. Emerton from 



