138 F. C. Hili—Antenne of Melée. 
and American authors apply a number of terms to the antenna, 
as “twisted and knotted,” “remarkably swollen and knotted, 
“‘writhed or distorted,” etc., which do not at all describe it, 
and no ove with whom I have met takes any notice of the 
remarkable flexure between the sixth and seventh joints which 
eads me to speak of the geniculation as a “hinge;” and o 
course they do not hint at a use for the hinge, while one of our 
best entomologists assured me recently that no use has been 
found for it. 
ten, as he closed his hinges, the female drew her antenn® 
out of them, only to have them seized again at once. When 
she allowed him to retain them for a moment, he would move 
backward, drawing her antenne with his like a bridle. My 
Princeton, New Jersey, December 5, 1882. 
