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per wire six inclies in diiMiieter, to which 

 are attached four movable uprights of 

 the same wire ; and a piece of netting. 



When set the uprights are stuck into 

 the sand at equal distances, supporting 

 the copper ring at about six inches from 

 the top of the flower pot. The netting 

 is spread over this frame and held to the 

 flower-pot by a rubber band, making an 

 airy cage, the top of wliich is flat, en- 

 abling the moths to hang from it. This 

 cage I put on a table in a room with one 

 window partly open. 



The two moths were very quiet all 

 the next day, 9th May, but on the loth 

 the male crawled about the netting, 

 without seeming to notice the female, 

 who was still cpiiet, only opening and 

 shutting her wings now and then. I set 

 the cage so that the female was nearest 

 the open window but more than ten feet 

 away from it. Soon after nine in the 

 evening the male began to seem excited 

 and to vibrate his wings so fast that they 

 made a dull buzzing sound, loud enough 

 to attract my attention at the far end of 

 the room. I kept a light until eleven 

 o'clock and all the time the male either 

 kept up the buzzing vibration, or 

 crawled over the netting near the fe- 

 male, opening and shutting his wings as 

 if to display them. As soon as the light 



Insect Life. Under this title the 

 United States Entomologist begins the 

 publication of a periodical bulletin to 

 be issued on an average once a month. 

 It will contain brief notes and papers 

 which are not adapted for the annual 

 reports or the special bulletins of the 

 Division. The first numero is dated 



was out I heard a great fluttering, which 

 stopped before half-past eleven. 



The next morning the moths were in 

 coittt hanging from the top of the cage, 

 and so remained until 6.30 p. M., when 

 they separated, and for about an hour 

 were very quiet. 



I then put the female into a box cov- 

 ered with netting and before 10 p. m, 

 she had laid 159 eggs. 



iith May she laid So eggs. 



i3tli " " " 40 " 



13th " " " 31 " 



14th " " " 13 " 



15th " " " 10 " 



i6th " " " 6 " 



17th " '' " 6 " 



iSth " " " 6 " 



making a total of 341 eggs. 



The last eggs were pure white, with- 

 out the dark spots characteristic of the 

 others. All the eggs were laid before 

 midnight and most of them before 10 

 p. M. On 19th of Ma\- the female died, 

 the male T liad let fly on the third day. 



Both emitted a rank odor, not unlike 

 that of ^//(7;///^?/5'-flowers and I could 

 not perceive that the odor of the female 

 was stronger or different from that of 

 the male though I tested them in sepa- 

 ate rooms. 



July 1SS8 and contains among other 

 interesting matter a complete life-his- 

 tory ofthe Willow-shoot Saw-fly {P//yl- 

 loecus integer^. Dr. Williston describes 

 and figures Lestophornus icervac a new 

 genus and species of Osclnidae para- 

 sitic on the fluted scale {Icerya p7tr- 

 chasi). 



