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slightly shagrened, with a medial, aiiteriorl3'', diverging, dark suture, having a paler 

 ■one diverging each side from its base, the "whole reminding one of a Greek W (psi); 

 inferiorly smoother, with a darker hind border, and with two almost parallel medial 

 sutures; mouth directed upward ; autennaj (Fig. 26, ;) long, recurved, 3-jointed ; joint 

 1 nearly as long as 2 and 3 together ; 2 with a few bristles around the truncate end, 

 which gives out a small nipple ; 3 only J diameter of 2, ending in a long, stiff bristle 

 and a few verticillate smaller ones ; labrum subquadrate and pale ; mandibles (Fig. 

 26, g) slightly falcate at tij), broadening to base, the terminal half strongly tridentate; 

 ■maxillae with inner lobe not prominent, and furnished with but few bristles ; maxil- 

 lary palpi (Fig. 26, i) 3-jointed, naked, joint 3 longest ; labium (Fig. 26, h) small, the 

 palpi naked, 2-jointed, the terminal joint longest. 



The newly hatched larva is white, with the head dark-brown and the horny plates 

 ■on joints 1 and 12 black. 



Described from many specimens. K Chapuis and Caudeze' description of the 

 antennae of Cleridce larvse, as consisting of "two shortened joints," is correct, then our 

 ■Corynetes larva materially differs from the other members of the family in this respect. 



Pupa (Fig. 26, b) — with the anus terminating in two rounded tubercles inferiorly, 

 and two larger, tapering fleshy points superiorly. Sparselj' garnished with stiff, 

 rufous hairs. 



THE CLOVER-HAY y^OUK—Asopia eostalis (Fabr). 

 (Ord. LKriDOi'TEKA ; Fam. Pykalidjk). 



This is a very widely distributed little insect, for it occurs in many 

 ■parts of Europe and Canada, and is quite generally found throughout 

 the Eastern and Middle States, and in the Mississippi Valley — having, 



no doubt, been originally imported 

 into this country from Europe, like 

 so many other troublesome species 

 which infest dried grains, fruits and 

 other preserved food. Such insects 

 are easily and almost unavoidably 

 transported from country to country, 

 and as there were, so far as we have 

 any knowledge, no clover stacks 

 made in this country before Colum- 

 bus' time, we have an a priori ve?L- 

 i^\^\\hkrc^\^L\h son for not considering the present 



, coverea with silken . . ,. -r . ^ • L^ 



Avcb. species indigenous. It must either 



have been imported or— if native— have acquired an entirely new 

 habit during recent times. So far as we have any positive knowledge, 



ASOl'IA COSTALIS: — 1, 2, 



chrysalis; 5, (i, jiioth with wings exi 



and closed; 7, worm, covered with silken 



