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MISCELLANKOUrt COTTON INSECTS. 



AULACIZES IKKOKATA Fill). 



Fi-. 33. 



This species is also not uncommon on cotton. Mr. Lewis found it 

 feeding- on cotton at Terrell, -July 2, 1904. Eggs 

 were laid in a cotton stalk in the lal)oratory on 

 Jul}' 0, one bunch of twelve and another of six- 

 teen. The eggs hatched July 14, the young nymphs 

 being nearly white. On July 15 eggs taken on 

 cotton in the field had also l)een deposited in the 

 stem. The eggs are laid in a row up and down 

 the stalk just l)elow the ei)idermis. In ovipositing, 

 the female inserts her ovipositor just beneath the 

 epidermis and deposits an egg, then backs a little 

 and deposits another until a slit al)out half an inch 

 long, in which the eggs are laid, is formed. 



Adults were taken at ti-ap light at College 

 Station, May 27, 1904, and at Courtney, Tex., 



Fig. 33. — Aiilaci-cs irro- 

 rata: adult — much en- 

 larged (author's illus- 

 tration). 



October 10, 1902. 



OYPONA OCTOLINEATA Say. 



This is a common inhabitant of cotton fields and was specially 

 noticed at Wellborn, May 29, 1904. 



