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old egg-masses of the species, but nothing 

 living. However, on Long Island, N. Y., I 

 met with larvae like leucosligma but without 

 the yellow subdorsal band. On breeding 

 them I obtained a moth exactly like Mr. 

 Beutenmiiller's recent examples of inornata. 

 Harrison G. Dyar, 



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Stanford University's collection 

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 of Japanese Coccidae. Mr. Kuwana visited 

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