NOTES ON COTTON MOTHS II 



in the National Museum collection. A small female is labeled " fed on 

 Ipomoea, Selma, Alabama, September, 1 880," presumably by C. V. 

 Riley. The larvae are long and slender, the tubercles black and distinct ; 

 abdominal feet all present, the pair on joint 7 small ; dorsum varying in 

 extent of black marking. 



€x>8inophila erosa Hiibner. 



A regular inhabitant of the United States as far north at least as 

 Washington, D. C, breeding on several native plants but not on cotton. 

 Apparently not migratory. The larva is slender, green, writhout conspic- 

 uous tubercles or meirking ; abdominal feet of joint 7 absent, those of 8 

 small. 



Anomis texana Riley. 



Occurs on cotton in Texas, the type having been bred from that 

 State. I have no records of more northern distribution ; it ought to occur 

 throughout the Gulf States. The larva is not sis slender as that of argil- 

 lacea, is darkly marked, but vvithout black tubercles. The abdominaJ 

 feet of joint 7 are absent, those of 8 slender and reduced. 



Anoinis exacta I-^iibner. 



Tfiis occurs in Texas, the synonym hostia Harvey having been 

 described from that State. A specimen is before me from San Antonio, 

 collected December 1 , 1 895 (E. A. Schvs^arz). I have no record of a 

 more northerly distribution. The larva is unknown to me. Riley's record 

 of exacta from Texas refers to texana. 



SPECIES PROBABLY NOT OCCURRING IN THE UNITED STATES 



Anomis luridula Guenee. 



Recorded from the Gulf States by Smith (Bull. 44, U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 242, 1893), but probably based on erroneous identifications. Dr. Fliley 

 labeled a specimen of dodorium Dyar from Brazil " derogata comes 

 nearest to this form and is evidently the samtie." On the strength of this 

 the Brazilian dodorium have been in the North American series of luri- 

 dula for 30 years. With them were later confused the types of texana ; 

 the two are very much adike in markings. No true luridula were in the 

 series. This species is larger, smoothly colored, with the wing shape amd 

 facies of argillacea, with which it might eaisily be confused except for the 

 different angle of the reniform. What Riley and Smith called luridula 



