Séance du W Février 1913. 19 



Séance du 19 Février 1913. 



Présidence de M. le D'' Lkwis Gough 



Dons d'ouiwages : 



De I'Umted States Department of Agriculture: 

 The principal Caclus Insects of the U.S.; The Beha- 

 vior of the Honey Bee in Pollen-Collecting; The 

 Red-banded Thrips ; The Grape and Berry Moth. 



Communications. 



A New Cotton Insect 



by Lewis II. Gougii, Ph. O. 



Large numbers of a small moth, which has been 

 identihed as Cnjptoblabes (/nidiella Mill, a Pyralid 

 belonging to the Subfamily Phijcitimv have been bred 

 in cages containing cotton bolls. The bolls \vere 

 received from two localities, Belcas and Dessouk, the 

 moths emerging at the end of November and the first 

 week of December. The numbers obtained were too 

 great for the insect to have been merely chance in- 

 clusions in the consignments of bolls, and no doubt 

 exists in my mind that the larvae must either have 

 fed inside the bolls, or else on the involucres. The 



