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and grains of earth. Some of these cocoons disclosed moths 

 within a few weeks (August 16 to about 30) , the pupa working 

 its way to the surface. A goodly number, however, hibernated 

 in their cocoons as shortened, pale yellow larvse. Two of these 

 cocoons, which were cut open in December, 1912, showed the 

 inmates with the head pointing toward the narrower end of 

 the cell. These hibernating cocoons produced imagines in 

 1913, from April 22 to June 14. The height of the season for 

 this spring brood appeared to be during the first half of May, 

 the June specimens being stragglers. This brood was reared 

 in the laboratory, and consequently under artificial conditions. 



The insect is therefore imperfectly double-brooded. No 

 adults were taken in the field, but a reared specimen laid a 

 number of flattened oval eggs, somewhat depressed on the disc 

 and at the broader end. They are about .8 mm. long, of a 

 brownish color, and under the compound microscope present 

 a shallowly reticulate surface; in addition they are finely 

 granulate. 



It is not unlikely that Melittia snowi, if not already a cucurb 

 pest, like its ally, satyriniformis, in some sections, will sooner 

 or later become of economic importance. 



