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PRODUCTION O^ RACES AND SPECIES IN I.EPTINOTARSA. 



Lot B. — This lot, consisting of a mixture of hybrids and decemlineata from 

 the first hybrid generation (the D + 2 Dr), gave in the fourth Hneal genera- 

 tion after hibernating, of L. decemlineata, 92 male and 91 female; L. pallida, 

 19 male and 31 female. These were separated and known as lot B 2 {de- 



cemlineata hybrids) and lot B i {pallida) and reared in the fifth generation, 

 giving from lot B I of L. pallida 20 male and 24 female ; and from lot B 2 

 of B 2a, L. pallida, 41 male and 40 female ; B 2b, I,, decemlineata, 92 male 

 and 91 femiale. 



