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pale golden brown ; antennal bands darker brown, narrow, marginal, 

 bending inward anteriorly, ending in distinct spots each side of the clypeal 

 incision, a circular pale spot in front of the mandibles, which are dark 

 brown, a dark ocular blotch; occipital blotches pale brown, yet distinct. 



Prothorax long and wide ; sides slightly roun^iing ; posterior margin 

 medially convex; a strong pustulated hair in the rounding posterior angle 

 and two short, fine hairs near the median line ; pale golden brown, 

 slightly darker in the posterior angle ; metathorax short, sides nearly 

 straight, an interrupted transverse series of fourteen long hairs arranged 

 in groups, two near the anterior lateral angle, three nearer the median 

 line, and two others each side of the median line; there are also two 

 short hairs near the posterior margin each side of the median line; gen- 

 eral color pale golden brown, with no distinct lateral blotches; legs stout, 

 pale, with darker semi-annulations and scattered hairs. 



Abdomen broadly oval, reaching its greatest width at the third segment, 

 then tapering rapidly to the last segment; a transverse series of strong 

 hairs on each segment from one to six, being more numerous and spine 

 like near the lateral margin ; first two segments with short spines on the 

 lateral margin; last segment narrowly emarginate with four strong hairs 

 each side of the emargination and four strong dorsal hairs near the lateral 

 anterior margin; ground color paler brown than the head on thorax; first 

 three segments with slightly darker lateral bands. 



THE BEE MOTH. 



By Mrs. C. B. Aaron, Phila., Pa. 



In all warm countries where the honey-bee is found we may 

 also expect its natural enemy, the bee-moth. When the early 

 English colonists in the seventeenth century brought to America 

 the "White man's fly" as the Indians called the bee, with it 

 came the deadly pest whose ravenous appetite had suggested to 

 Swammerdam the appropriate name of " Bee-wolf." 



Beyond a certain altitude this troublesome moth is not to be 

 seen. De Rauschenfels was unable to find it in the-mountains 

 of Prussia 2900 feet above the sea, although for years he watched 

 hives both with and without bees. In bleak and cold localities 

 where the summers are short and the hives exposed to the winds, 

 the moth is rarely seen. In the tropics there exist the most 

 favorable conditions for the moth's comfort. According to Han- 

 neman the bees in Brazil have a hard struggle, and Mr. Benton 

 asserts that bee culture in certain regions in India is difficult on 

 account of the moth. 



