436 REPORT UPON COTTON INSECTS. 



July and later. [Norborne Young, Columbia. 

 June l.-[E. T. Dale, Miller. 



FLORIDA. 



Generally July ; sometimes last of June. [John Bradford, Leon, 

 lu June. [John B. Carriu, Taylor. 

 Last of June, or in July. [ J. M. McGehee, Santa Rosa. 



I biive seen the inotb in February, but not in the cotton-fields. Have observed them 

 in the fields the latter part of May. [R. Gamble, Leon. 



GEOUGIA. 



Early part of June. [D. P. Luke, Berrieu. 

 June and July. [A. J. Cheves, Macon. 



July and August ; mostly in August ; they make their web in the cotton-leaves. [E. 

 M. Thompson, Jackson. 



The first moths seen here about July 10. [M. Kemp, Marion. 



June 20 and 1st of July. [Timothy Fusrell, Coffee. 



About the middle of August. [William Jones, Clarke. 



This year on or about the -28th of August. [S. P. Odom.Dooly. 



Have seen them in dead of winter alive. [William A. Harris, Worth. 



LOUISIANA. 



About the middle of July. [H. B. Shaw, Concordia. 



The moths are noticed here generally in June and July for the first ; some persons 

 say they see them earlier ; some even contend that they are to be found in winter in 

 tearing down hay or fodder stacks or pulling the bark from old trees. There are so 

 many moths or small butterflies which look so like the moth which produces the army- 

 worm, that our common people would never be able to tell the difference. When they 

 become numerous, they may be observed flying about the cotton plants late in the eve- 

 ning or into rooms where there is a light, and then any one knows them. [Douglas 

 M. Hamilton, West Feliciana. 



The first moths are noticed in March, April, and May. [Dr. I. U. Ball, West Feliciana. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



It would be a hard statement to make as to the time when the moth makes its first 

 appearance. From the fact of there being so varied a tribe of moths, many people are 

 misled, mistaking others for the real cotton- worm. I have known them here in July. 

 [John C. Russell, Madison. 



I have seen the moth in this county in every month of the year. [J. Cnlbertsou, 

 Ran kin. 



They usually appear from the 1st to the 15th of August ; sometimes earlier. [Dr. 

 E. H. Anderson. 



In May rarely ; June seldom; July generally. [D. L. Phares, Wilkinson. 



About May 10; some say by the 1st. [J. W. Bnrch, JeS'erson. 



About the 20th of July, in limited numbers. [C. F. Sherriod, Lowndes. 



A few in June ; generally in July. [R. Clarke, Chickasaw. 



Generally in June. [C. Welch, Covington. 



From thelst to the 20th of June. [I. G. G. Garrett, Claiborne. 



Any time of warm days in Fobrunry, but do not deposit eggs until the last of June 

 or first of July. [W. Spillman, Clarke. 



Perfect, insects, closely resembling that of the cotton-worm, were captured in May ; 

 and the eggs obtained by dissection of the moth exactly corresponded with descrip- 

 tion in Agricultural Report, 1873, of egg cotton caterpillar. [G. W. Smith- Vaniz, Madi- 

 son. 



About the 15th or 20th of July. [George V. Webb, Amite. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



About the first of September. [F. I, Smith, Halifax. 



From the 15th to the 30th of August. J. Evans, Cumberland. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



Sometimes as early as the middle of June; generally about the 1st of July. [James 

 W. Grace, Colh-tou. 



This year (1879) they were first noticed the 10th of August. Last year about the 

 25th of August ; some years as early as the 15th of July. [James C. Brown, Barn- 

 well. 



TKXNESSKE. 



August W. [A. W. Hunt, Perry. 



