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boscis, the third joint the same length as the central one. The 

 basal joint has mixed black and white scales, while the terminal 

 two joints are blackish, with white at their bases. The fan-like 

 tufts are dark brown. The antennas of both sexes are dark 

 brown, the plumes of the male fuscous. 



The thorax is chestnut brown, with numerous yellowish scales 

 over the surface, often forming irregular stripes. The pleura are 

 brown, with a very few dirty white scales in small patches. The 

 femora have mixed black and yellow scales, fewer beneath and 

 at the base, with a black ring near the apex and a white knee 

 spot. The tibise of the posterior legs are dark brown, almost 

 black, with a broad white ring a short distance from the apex 

 and narrow white rings at the base; the anterior and mid tibiae 

 may have indistinct bands, but are usually covered with black 

 and whitish scales collected into spots and patches, sometimes 

 forming two or more narrow, broken bands; the apices black. 

 The tarsi are black, with broad, pure white bands at the base of 

 the joints, and there is a whitish ring at the center of the first 

 joint. The claws of the anterior and mid tarsal joints of the 

 male are alike, each with a long claw having a median and basal 

 tooth, and a small simple claw (fig. 62, 3 and 4). The posterior 

 claws are equal and simple (fig. 62, 5). In the female they are 

 alike on all feet, being equal and simple, like the posterior ones 

 of the male. The wings are hyaline, with the veins densely 

 clothed with large brown scales. 



The abdomen is dark brown, with indistinct, yellowish basal 

 bands, sometimes with white spots at the sides. Beneath it is 

 yellowish, with brown scales. 



Habits of the Adult. 



Veiry little is known of this insect, though it is neither rare nor 

 local, while the early stages are altogether unknown. Specimens 

 have been taken by Mr. Grossbeck at Lake Hopatcong and by 

 Mr. Viereck at Cape May, while Mr. Brakeley finds them liter- 

 ally by the hundred at Lahaway. The only male collected was 

 taken at Lake Hopatcong by Mr. Grossbeck, July 21st, and the 

 only female with developed ova was taken by the same gentle- 

 man in the Moonachie woodland swamp, July 29th. Of the 

 hundreds of examples sent in by Mr. Brakeley during 1903 and 

 1904, between the last days of May and the early days of 

 August, not one showed any traces of developing ova. Over 

 one hundred examples were taken by Mr. Brakeley several times 

 in each year at a single sitting in the early evening, and alto- 



