APPENDIX II ANSWERS TO CIRCULAR. 453 



Frequently, especially over the roof of the gin-houses late in the evening. [D. Lee, 

 Lowndes. 



I think I have seen the moth flying during mild winter weather. [A. D. Edwards, 

 Macon. 



ARKANSAS. 



I have seen what I took to be the cotton-moth in mild winters. [Norborne Young, 

 Columbia. 



No. [E. T. Dale, Miller. 



1 have not. [T. S. Edwards, Pope. 



FLORIDA. 



No. [ J. Bradford, Leon. 



Often. [J. M. McGehee, Santa Rosa. 



Not earlier than February, and one solitary fly, ragged and worn, and on one occasion 

 only. The insect does not hibernate, but continues to carry on the process of nature 

 during the > ear, the intervals between successive generations being possibly longer 

 during winter. [R. Gamble, Leon. 



GEORGIA. 



A grassy field accidentally took fire in January, 1876. As the old pines with partly 

 decayed sap would catch tire the moths were observed to escape from their hiding 

 places in large numbers. [A. J. Cheves, Macon. 



I havo not. [M. Kemp, Marion. 



I think I have seen moth flying about during the mild winter months of warm win- 

 ters, but could not say that they were the moth above matured. [E. M. Thompson, 

 Jackson. 



Have never found the moth flying in winter. [T. Fussell, Coffee. 



Have on several occasions. [ William A. Harris, Worth. 



I never have. [S. P. Odom, Dooly. 



I have not. [D. P. Luke, Berrien. 



I do not belive they do. [William Jones, Clarke. 



I carefully searched the stems without finding any eggs of the moth. An examina- 

 tion of the woods, logs, and brushwood yielded no chrysalides of the cotton-worm. 

 From the appearance of the chrysalides on the plants it must be conceded that the last 

 worms do not quit the plant nor prepare themselves for winter in any way. In my 

 opinion the chrysalides which do not yield the moth and are retarded by the severity 

 of the weather cannot conceal themselves in any way in the ground, and must proba- 

 bly perish from the cold or in the process of removing the dead plants to prepare for 

 a fresh crop of cotton. [A. R. Grote. 



LOUISIANA. 



Never. There is a moth seen on mild days, flying about the sheds and gins, but it is 

 not the cotton-moth. [H. B. Shaw, Concordia. 



I have never seen the moths flying during mild winter weather. [John A. Mary- 

 man, East Feliciana. 



I have never seen the moth during the winter. [Dr. I. U. Ball, West Feliciana. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



Never later than December. I have been assured that large numbers of Aletia were 

 seen in the Black River region in Louisiana flitting about in warm evenings in the 

 winter of 18GG-'67 and 1867-'G8, and also in the southwest part of this county. 

 Although so assured by intelligent, close observers, well acquainted with this insect, 

 I do not feel entirely certain ; I think it probable, however, that some survive the 

 winter here in the lowlands. [D. L. Phares, Wilkinson. 



The moth usually flies in the evening, between sunset and dark, and at that hour I 

 have seen thousands of them sporting of a mild evening in winter. [J. Culbertson, 

 Rankin. 



I am satisfied they are with us all winter. [J. W. Burch, Jefferson. 



No. [Dr. E. H. Anderson, Madison. 



I have not. [C. Welch, Covington. 



Never. [Kenneth Clark, Chicknsaw. 



I have never seen a live moth later than the 15th of November. [I. G. G. Garrett, 

 Claiborne. 



Often in warm days about old out-buildings. [W. Spillman, Clarke. 



Never. [George V. Webb, Amite. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



No. [F. I. Smith, Halifax. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



Never. [James W. Grace, Colleton. 



I have not found the moth hibernating, but I have heard others say that they have. 



