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1914. Aeolothrips albicinctus, Karny, Verh. k. k. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. 

 Wien, LXIV Bd., p. 51. 



Five females (of which two are macropterous) and one 

 male (brachypterous) were taken in the State of New York 

 by Mr. J. C. Faure, when he was a student in Cornell Uni- 

 versity. They were correctly identified by Mr. Faure, and 

 have subsequently been compared by the writer with authentic 

 European material. The detailed records of the specimens are 

 as follows: Canastota, New York, July 29, 1912, 3 $ $ , of 

 which one is macropterous, on corn leaves; Canastota, N. Y., 

 Aug. 1912, I $, brachypterous, reared; Chester, N. Y., Aug. 

 14, 1912, I $, brachypterous, on onion; Elmira, N. Y., July 

 I, 1912, I 5 , macropterous, on onion. 



An interesting addition to the American list, which in 

 Europe has been recorded from England, Finland, Sweden, 

 Austria, Italy, Portugal and Sardinia. 



A Remarkable Abdominal Structure in Certain 

 Moths (Lep.). 



By Frederick W. Russell, M. D., Dallas, Texas. 

 Many years ago while living and collecting at Winchendon 

 in the northern part of Massachusetts, I was one day manipu- 

 lating the abdomen of a certain moth for the purpose of 

 expressing the eggs. Suddenly there shot out from the ex- 

 tremity of the abdomen a tubular process, curved, tapering 

 and crowned at the end with a neat little brush of yellowish 

 hair. It was of a pale flesh color and sparingly clothed with 

 delicate, long, brownish hair. With the slightest variation in 

 the pressure, or by the motion of the air, it waved to and 

 fro in a very interesting way. I tried by maintaining the 

 pressure for a long time to get it to harden and so be pre- 

 served as a specimen, but after a half hour's effort I desisted, 

 when it suddenly shot back out of sight. I have always be- 

 lieved that the species was Drasteria erechtea, but I have not 

 been able to see it in that species since, and the observation 

 remained unique until very recently. 



