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AMERICAN NATURALIST 





Vor. XXXVI. June, 1902. No. 426. 


THE LIFE HISTORY OF ULULA HYALINA 
LATREILLE. 
J. F. McCLENDON. 
WnirE collecting insects in Galveston, Texas, during June, 
1900, I found specimens of U/u/a hyalina Latreille, and at the 
suggestion of Dr. Wheeler kept them alive for the purpose of 
obtaining their eggs and following their larval and pupal devel- 
opment. The insects would fly against the sides of the large 
glass jar in which they were kept, and finally killed themselves ; 
but two females deposited their eggs before they died. After 
many of the eggs and young larvae were destroyed by various 
accidents, I finally succeeded in raising two larvae. One of these 
I preserved when full-grown, the other after it had pupated. 
Later I obtained several imagoes from different localities and 
one full-grown larva from Austin, Texas. After reading the 
few notes that have been published on the life history of this 
interesting insect, I concluded that a more thorough treatment 
of the subject would not be out of place. 
The first notes on the life history of the Ascalaphide, the 
family to which our insect belongs, were published in 1826 
1 Contributions from the Zoólogical Laboratory of the University of Texas, No. 27. 
