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Length exclusive of st3-le i mm.; st\-le .4 mm.; caudal filament .8 mm.: 

 antennae .5 mm. ; wing^ i mm. long, .5 mm. wide ; honey yellow ; head 

 darker yellow ; anterior pair of upper eyes dark red, posterior pair 

 black, smaller; ventral pair black equal in size to the upper anterior 

 pair. Antennae whitish, lo-jointed, first joint short, thick cylindrical; 

 second joint about equal to first but oval; third joint about as long as 

 second but much more slender, slightly swollen toward the tip ; re- 

 maining joints all slender, cylindrical, fourth as long as fifth and sixth 

 together ; others sub-equal in length, collar long, cylindrical ; prothorax 

 broad shield shaped ; mesothorax more strongly chitinized and wholly 

 brown except a yellow shield-shaped area above, between the bases of 

 the wings ; metathorax with a slight brownish tinge, legs brownish yel- 

 low ; style yellow ; caudal filaments white, slender, tapering, twice as 

 long as style; wings hyaline with a yellowish tinge, with a microscopic 

 close-set pubescence. 



The above description is given in detail because the original 

 description given by Dr. Griffith is incomplete. The only fig- 

 ures of the male that have appeared from original specimens 

 are given by Marlatt in the U. S. D. A. year book for 1900. 

 "In the figure of the adult there given the black bands are not 

 properly placed. Both are too far forward, the first is not 

 broad enough, the second too broad, and the yellowish spot be- 

 tween the wings does not reach to the base of the wings." — 



DOANE. 



When the males emerge the females that hatched at the same 

 time have completed their second moult and the letter H is 

 evident. Summarizing the length of the life cycle of the male 

 it will be during the summer months as follows : First stage. 

 13^ months; second stage, i month, propupa 8 days, pupa 10 

 days, adult 3 days. Total, 96 days, or about 3 months. 



The ''Crop*' of Lepidopters of 1910. 



By R. R. Rowley, Louisiana, Missouri. 



The early part of the summer of 1910 was anything but en- 

 couraging to the collector of lepidopterous insects, barring the 

 greater silk moths. There were no butterflies on the wing and 

 no larvae on the food plants. True, the first sunny days of 

 spring had warmed the chrysalids of ajax and tiirnus and a 



