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fully proved that trapping is worse than useless. I had two 

 traps in my orchard all last season, from March to Novem- 

 ber, and one the previous season, and last .season my apples 

 were so wormy and knotty that I got ab.solutely no good fruit, 

 while men half a mile away who sprayed got a good crop of 

 fair, fine marketable apples. Great stress is laid on the cap- 

 ture of " coddling" moths in the circulars, meaning, I suppose, 

 Carpocapsa povwnclla. Although I carefully examined all that 

 I caught, I have a record of only one specimen of that species 

 in the two seasons ! Of course, it gets a good many "dor 

 bugs," but I think they are largely males, and at any rate 

 there were more last season than the previous one. It catches 

 also many ant lions, Carabidae, ichneumons, and species which 

 do not eat anything that is of any use to farmers, and I really 

 think that the destruction of beneficial insects more than bal- 

 ances any good that may be done. But " the fool and his 

 money are soon parted," and farmers are always an easy prey 

 for bunko men and land sharks, so I suppo.se that many traps 

 will be sold, and many orchards unsprayed in consequence. 



I find that the great majority of .specimens caught are males, 

 and, of course, as they don't lay eggs, their capture is of no 

 value to the farmer. Of several very common things I have 

 never taken a 9 , though I have carefully examined all, hoping 

 to get specimens for my collection. 



The Larvae of Myrmeleon texanus Banks and M. 

 rusticus Hagen. 



(See Plate XL) 



J. F. McClendon. 



(Contributions from the Zoolosiical Laboratory of the University of Texas, No. 33 ) 



In addition to the technical description of the larvae of Myr- 

 meleon texanus Banks, and M. rustieus Hagen, the following 

 paper includes a few paragraphs on the homologies between 

 the external anatomy of the larva and imago. This subject 

 has received some attention from Hagen, Redtenbacher and 

 other entomologi.sts, but their work was of a general nature. 

 In the present paper I have carefully compared the larva with 



