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figs oviposit in the winter crop and thus the cycle of the yearly life 

 of the insect is completed. 



Doubts have been expressed as to the existence of three distinct 

 crops of caprifigs, and with good reason, for at times and in some 

 climates belated mammoni hibernate with the mamme. H. G. Solms- 

 Laubach says that in Europe there is no sharp distinction between 



Fig. 4.— Mature profichi caprifigs with Blastophaga about ready to issue. (About two-thirds natural size.) 



the mammoni and the mamme crops and that fruits of the former 

 crop which do not mature in the fall remain as mamme over winter. 

 They both occupy the same position on the branch, both developing 

 on the new wood. The chief difference between the two is that the 

 former contains a well-defined cluster of staminate flowers, while in 

 the mamme with rare exceptions no male flowers have been observed 



