We shall return later to the pessimism expressed in the last sentence of that quotation from Maeterlink, a pessimism which seems to have caught the popular fancy, but let us first consider some of the rather startling things that make recently been discovered about the biology of that group of animals that make up three-fourths of the animal kingdom even though they are usually not represented in zoological gardens, are the Cinderellas of most zoological museums, and are a part of the great unknown to most university professors of zoology.

Moderately slender, parallel, black, the apices of the last two ventral segments narrowly nebulouslly paler; legs pale testaceous; surface shining, the abdomen rather less so, pubescence somewhat obscure in color.

Head with a few coarse punctures mostly postero-laterally, with much finer ones sparsely dispersed. Eyes not quite attaining the basal nrargin of the head. Antennae of the usual type, outer joints decreasing in length but all perceptibly longer than wide.

Antennae blackish brown annulated with white to grayish; markings in some specimens indistinct giving the antennae a light blackish brown appearance. Palpi, second joint blackish brown with the apex, a narrow strip and the base internally, white; terminal joint blackish brown with tip and base white scaled; face and head white with the tips of the scales light blackish brown. Patagia, base blackish brown, posterior part white mottled with blackish brown. Fore wing, ground color white ; many of the scales tipped with blackish to light brown; at base on costa a blackish brown area; just before middle, on costa a large blackish brown triangular patch, the apex of which extends into the center of the wing; a few yellow ochre scales on the margins of the triangular patch.

General ground color semihyaline to yellowish white marked with orange or red. Vertex with semblance of three white spots more or less surrounded with orange bands. Median white spot elongated. Pronotum with median Y-shaped orange mark, touching both margins, usual angular mark behind each eye. Scutellum with spot on tip, basal angles yellow. Clavi with basal anchor-shaped mark and rectangular spot before tip. Coria with angulate vitta arising on costa midway between plaque and humeral angle, reaching to claval suture. Another irregular-sided, zigzag, vitta arising at anterior end of plaque, more or less surrounding it and ending just before base of cell M4. Black spot in posterior end of plaque and base of cell M4. Tips of tegmina more or less dusky. Cross-veins red. Venter stramineous.

Anoplodera planata S. & H. 1928, Bull. 52, Can. Nat. Mus. 62.

This species was described several years ago (The Lepturini of America North of Mexico Pt. I. p. 62) from specimens labeled “Iowa”.