PSYCHE. 
Whether the male Culex can bite, or 
not, is a question to which I can give 
-no decisive answer; but I do not be- 
lieve it can. I have often taken male 
mosquitoes, with all possible care to 
prevent disturbing them, beneath a glass 
cover upon my hand, letting them remain 
long enough to be as tranquil as they 
were when upon the leaves and grass of 
the field, but they would neither bite nor 
show any desire to do so, nor have I been 
able to feed male mosquitoes with water, 
saliva or fresh blood, all of which liquids 
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the females often drink with avidity. 
Upon anatomical grounds I believe 
that male mosquitoes take liquid food, 
although I have never dissected their 
stomachs to see what this food was. 
They have mouth-parts and pharynx 
developed sufficiently to suck liquids ; 
but the absence of barbed maxillae, of 
a free hypopharynx, and of an oesopha- 
geal bulb, leads one to suppose that they 
take a smaller quantity of food than the 
females do, and that they do not obtain 
it by piercing the skins of animals. 
HAWORTH. ITS 
HABITS AND METAMORPHOSIS. 
BY HELEN SELINA KING, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. 
Tuts insect, whose range embraces 
Europe and Australia, is also found in 
certain parts of the United States. 
Near Dallas, Texas, hundreds of ce- 
dar trees may be seen stript of all foliage 
and killed by this insect, with their 
branches laden with its cases. Near 
Austin, Texas, its favorite food is a 
species of wild bramble, Smilax rotun- 
difolia Young, but many other trees and 
shrubs furnish ready substitutes. Among 
these are the scrub-oak, the peach pome- 
granate, the Judas tree (Cercis), and 
even weeds of certain kinds, while the 
variety of cedar found there does not 
seem to be molested. 
The habits of this insect have already 
received the careful attention of ento- 
mologists and my object is to fill, as far 
as I can, any blanks which may have 
occurred in previous observations, by 
giving such items as have rewarded my 
personal attention to its habits and met- 
amorphoses. 
The perfect insect is bisexual but is 
supposed to be occasionally parthenoge- 
netic. Ihave not yet demonstrated this 
latter trait. _ 
The male has short, sub-hyaline wings, 
sparsely scaled, of a dull brown color, 
and quickly expanding as in hesperians, 
which it also resembles in its broad 
head and large eyes. The antennae are 
deeply pectinate on their basal half, with 
minute pectinations on the terminal por- 
tion. The abdomen, usually short, show- 
ing the tip of the terminal segment is re- 
tractile and capable of great extension. 
The female is apterous, apodous, and 
almost acephalous, the small head, bent 
slightly forward, being scarcely distin- 
guishable as such but for its relation to 
the other members, and its two minute 
ocelli. There are no antennae, and no 
visible organs of mandueation. This 
small head and the gradually enlarging 
thoracic segments are acutely carinated 
on the median dorsal line, and are en- 
