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Eyer: Opostegidae
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Acknowledgments
The author wishes to acknowledge the generous loan of specimens for dissection from the educational institutions mentioned in paragraph 1, from the private collections of Dr. Annette F. Braun and Charles P. Kimball and to the U. S. National Museum and Philadelphia Academy of Sciences for the privilege of examining type material. The writer is also grateful to Dr. Annette F. Braun, Dr. W. T. M. Forbes, Dr. Ronald Hodges, and Dr. Alexander B. Klots for advice and assistance in the interpretation of the structure of male and/or female genitalia.
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Forbes, William T. M., 1923. The Lepidoptera of New York and neighboring
states. Cornell Univ. Agric. Exp. Sta. Mem. 68, Part I: 1-729. Heinrich, Carl, 1918. On the lepidopterous genus Opostega and its larval affinities.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington 20: 27-38. Meyrick, Edward, 1928. A revised handbook of British Lepidoptera. London.
914 pp. Pierce, F. M., & J. W. Metcalfe, 1935. The genitalia of the Tineid families of
Lepidoptera of the British Islands. Oundle, Northants. 116 pp. Spuler, Arnold, 1913. Die sogenannte Kleinschmetterlinge Europas. II. Stuttgart.
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Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, University Park, N. M., U. S. A.
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BUTTERFLY MIGRATION
September draws them through her sunny skies
Along the magic wave line of the shore,
Those feathered dreams that men call butterflies,
To honey cups not known to them before.
Their veined but fragile wings do not display
The strange endurance furthering their flight.
Unhampered by the subtle breeze each day
They hover over meadows and alight
In mass communion, quaffing of the mead
That gives them strength for yet another mile,
Forming bouquets on each enticing weed
Which lends itself as altar for a while,
Then flutter on, their tattered wings the toll
Of constant struggle toward the longed for goal.
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Katherine Hunn Karsner Westtown, Penna., U. S. A.
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