34 MISCELLANEOUS COTTON INSECTS. 



Table V. — Trdnsfnrmcdiun records of the s<ilt-m(trs]i cati-rpiUar. 



Place. 



Larva taken. 



Pupated. 



Days 

 pupa. 



Moth emerged. 



Terrell, Tex 



Do ; .1 une 29 



Do I August 20 



Do I October 8 



Do June 27 



College Station, Tex September 6, 1902. 



Paris, Tex. « 



June 18 i June 20,27 



July2 



August 29 . 

 October 18 

 July IK... 

 October 14- 



Ercildoun, Pa.a July 17, 1893 



Hartford, Conn, a i Eggs laid August 



3, 1893. 

 San Jose, Cal.« \ Cocoons, March 



I 9, 1883. 



Cocoons, May 

 29, 1885. 



August 22, unhealthy. 

 July 16, 1904. 

 September 12,1904. 



, 1904. 



July 26, 1904. 

 November S to Janu- 

 ary. 



July 29. 



a From the records of the Bureau of Entomology. 



The notes concerning- the cocoons from Paris, Tex., state that they 

 were found by the million on cotton, and that the caterpillars were 

 destroying- it and other green plants. As hibernated caterpillars of 



V 



e c 



Fig. IH.—Edigmriie acrsea: a. male motli; h, half-grown larva: c, mature larva, lateral view; (7. 

 head of same, front view; e, egg mass— all slightly enlarged, except d. more enlarged (from 

 Chittenden). 



this faniih^ do not usually feed before pupating, these cocoons must 

 have been those of the tirst spring generation. In this case there 

 would probabl}' be four generations in a season. The life history is 

 exceedingl}' variable, as may be seen from the abo^■e records and by 

 comparing them with those in Doctor Hinds' account. 



Mr. Newell observed in 1902 that Pod/sus spinosus Dall., which 

 hatched from eggs taken in the field with the larvte of acreea^ attacked 

 the young larv* vigorously and would soon have destroyed all of 

 them. 



