SUMMER NUMBER t 
d. Color uniformly dark brown to black; wings 
brownish gray to dark brown, the basal %4 
to 4% clear. 
e. Bristles, especially on prothorax and 
wings, very long and heavy; prothorax 
considerably longer than head. Large, 
1.6 mm. or more. 
f. Bases only of middle and hind 
femora and tibiae clear pale yel- 
low.....---. F. annulipes Hood (’15). 
ff. All tarsi and tibiae, and most of 
fore femora pale lemon yellow. 
F’. citripes Hood (’16). 
ee. Bristles long but slender; body length 
about 1.4 mm.; prothorax about as long 
as head; all tarsi and tibiae lemon yel- 
LO Witenes F. auripes Hood (715). 
eee. Bristles moderate; middle and _ hind 
tibiae and femora deep brown; pro- 
thorax longer than head. Length 
about 1.4 mm.....F. insularis (Franklin). 
dd. Body color yellowish brown, fore wings uni- 
formly shaded with gray...F’. nervosa (Uzel). 
THE BUTTERFLY’S LULLABY 
As we lay stretched out on the forest floor at the edge of the 
hammock feasting our eyes on colors of the sunset sky, along 
comes a butterfly hunting a safe nocturnal retreat. After trying 
several leaves, she finally finds one to her taste and settles down 
on the under side of it. Can one whose day has been so full of 
activity suddenly cease all motion and sink into the quiet of 
sleep? No more easily than can an active child. There must be 
a transition, a gradual letting down of nervous tension. So 
the butterfly waves her wings up and down, rather rapidly at 
first but then slower and slower until all motion ceases. Have 
we not here the essence of a lullaby, a monotonous repetition 
which gradually becomes slower and slower; a lullaby of motion 
rather than of sound; a lullaby given by the tired one herself, 
because there is none other to give it. 
“The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is 
uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it.”—Thoreau. 
“Hold thou, my friend, no lesser life in scorn, 
All nature is the womb whence man is born.” 
