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Psyche 5:90, 1888.

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per wire six inches in dizineter, to which are attached four movable uprights of
the same wire ; and a piece of netting.
When set the uprights are stuck into
the sand at equal distances, supporting
the copper ring at about six inches from the top of the flower pot. The netting
is spread over this frame and held to the flower-pot by a rubber band, making an
airy cage, the top of which is flat, en- abling the moths to hang from it. This
cage T put on a table in a room with one window partly open.
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Ihe two moths were very quiet all
the next day, 9th May, but on the loth
the male crawled about the netting,
without seeming to notice the female,
who was still quiet, only opening and
shutting her wings now and then. I set
the cage so that the female was nearest
the open window but more than ten feet
away from it.
Soon after nine in the
evening the male began to seem excited
and to vibrate his wings so fastthatthey made a dull buzzing sound, loud enough
to attract my attention at the far end of the room. I kept a light until eleven
o'clock and all the time the male either kept up the buzzing vibration, or
crawled over the netting near the fe-
male, opening and shutting his wings as
if to display them. As soon as the light [July-August 1888.
was out I heard a great fluttering, which stopped before half-past eleven.
The next morning the moths were in
coitu hanging from the top of the cage,
and so remained until 6.30 P. M., when
they separated, and for about an hour
were very quiet.
I then put the female into a box cov-
ered with netting and before 10 P. M.
she had laid 159 eggs.
making a total of 341 eggs.
The last eggs were pure white, with-
out the dark spots characteristic of the others. All the eggs were laid before
midnight and most of them before 10
P. M. On 19th of May the female died,
the male I had let fly on the third day. Both emitted a rank odor, not unlike
that of Ailanf^us-flowers and I could
not perceive that the odor of the female was stronger or different from that of
the male though I tested them in sepa-
ate rooms.
INSECT LIFE. Under this title the
United States Entomologist begins the
publication of a periodical bulletin to
be issued on an average once a month.
It will contain brief notes and papers
which are not adapted for the annual
reports or the special bulletins of the
Division. The first numero is dated
July 1888 and contains among other
interesting matter a complete life-his-
tory of the Willow-shoot Saw-fly (Phyl-
Zoecusinteger'}. Dr. Williston describes and figures Lestophornus icer-vae a new
genus and species of Oscwidae para-
sitic on the fluted scale (Icerya pur-
chasi ) .




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