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Excerpt from Collected Reprints of Jesse Francis McClendon: 1902-1923 While collecting insects in Galveston, Texas, during June, 1900, I found specimens of Ulu/a lzyalz'na 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 y 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.