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broken that it would have been 
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past recognition by any one not 
thoroughly familiar with the cotton-worm moth, and the other 
species so apt to be mistaken for 
it. Yet correct determination 
s most essential in all such 
questions and by the ovipositor 
alone we recognized the speci- 
men as that of the common 
army-worm (Leucania unipunc- 
ta). For the benefit of the 
general reader, and especially 
of our Southern friends, who 
are most deeply interested in the 
Aletia is a simple, slightly ex- 
tensile, cylindrical tube, while 
that of the Leucania, as shown 
in Fig. 3, is a compressed, nar- 
row, blade-like, horny process, 
Fic. , end o 
abdomen denuded and showing ovipositor 
.—Army-worm moth; @ 
at rest; 6, same with ovipositor fully ex- 
tended; e, f, retractile subjoints; 2, eggs 
—all enlarged; g, eggs, natural size (after 
Ri 
easily recognizable when all 
other characters of the species are obliterated. We may say, ex 
passant, that on account of the general similarity of color and 
the frequency with which it occurs in the Southern States during 
winter time, this Leucania is the most liable to be mistaken for 
the Aletia. 
upon application —C. V. Riley. 
ANTHROPOLOGY.* 
ANTHROPOLOGY IN Missour1.i—The Academy of Science of St. 
Louis published two important additions to anthropology during 
the past year: “Contributions to the archeology of Missouri, by 
the Archzological Section of the St. Louis Academy of Science. 
Part 1, Pottery, by W. B. Potter and E. Evers. Naturalists 
Bureau, Salem, Mass., 1880, 30 pp., 24 lith. pl., 5 maps, 4to;” and 
1 Edited by Prof, Or1s T. Mason, Columbian College, Washington, D. C. 
