63, Part VII, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Dept. o^ Agriculture 



Plate III. 



The Cotton Stalk-borer (Ataxia crypta). 



Fig. 1.— Adult or beecle. Fi^'. 2.— a. Galleries: 6, work. Fig. 3.— Emergence holes of adults. 

 Yig. 4.— a, Larva in t!itii; b, pupa in situ. Fig. 5.— a, Gallery running into root of plant: b, 

 castings behind larva. Fig. 1 twice natural size; figs. 2-5 two-thirds natural size. (Original. ) 



