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bipunctata. Still another pair of these beetles (Fig. 5) produced 

 in the first generation 9 beetles like the parents excepting that 

 2 have slightly smaller spots, in the second generation 4 beetles 

 all typical. 



Parents 



F' 



Parents ^ X 



Pair of bipunctata beetles, from Iowa, and their progeny. 



Pair of bipunctata beetles, from Iowa, and their progeny. (Male same as 



Fig. 1.) 

 Pair of bipunctata beetles, from Iowa, and their progeny. (Male same as 



Fig. 1.) 

 Pair of bipunctata beetles, from Iowa, and their progeny. 

 Pair of bipunctata beetles, from Iowa, and their progeny. 

 Five bipunctata females and 1 male, from Iowa, and their progeny. 

 One female from Fig. 6 mated with a bipunctata male, from Colorado, and 



progeny. 



One of these bipunctata females (Figure 8) previously 

 unfertilized, mated with the same annectans male, as had been 

 offered without result to the above females, produced in the 

 first generation 3 bipunctata beetles with moderately small 



