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own convenience, dropping on the ground, which it penetrates about an inch, and 

 winds a thin web in which it remains during the aurelia state. Curious enough, 

 the cotton on the black soil was not touched by it. The native cotton is 

 sometimes affected by it.' 



" In the foregoing extract from Dr. Barn's letter it is interesting to remark, 

 that the cotton grown from American seed is attacked in preference to any other, 

 and that the cotton plant when grown upon ' black soil ' remains free from injury. 

 The former fact may be accounted for by the American cotton being of a 

 different species to that usually grown in India, and probably offers seeds which 

 are more suitable to the development of the larva." (Saunders.) 1 



Fig. 1. — Gelechla gossypiella, Sndrs. $ (6011 Lahore, India), x 5.5. 



Larva : in bolls Gossypium spp. 19 , feeding on the seeds 79 , I-XII 7 . 



Hab. AFRICA — Egypt : Damanhour District, larva in cotton-bolls XI I, 

 ex. 1.V.1912 (F. C. WMcocks)— East Africa 9 — German East Africa 10 : 

 Wilhelmstal 10 — Zanzibar : Dr. W. M. Aders, no. 4, 1911. ASIA— India 19 : 

 Bombay 1 " 9 : Baruchf( = Broach) 14,8 - 9 ; Surat 5 - 6 - 8 ; S.Gujarat 7 : Punjab 8 : Lahore, 

 " Cotton-boll moth, reared from caterpillars from Lahore " \_E. C. Cotes ; 

 6010-11 Mus. Wlsm. (1176-7 Drnt. Det. 1894)] 8 : oudh 3 < 8 : Cawnpore 3 ' 8 , 

 Cotton, VI.1883 8 : bengal 7 : Behar 7 — Ceylon 7,9 — Burma 79 — Straits 

 Settlements 79 — Philippines: luzon : Manila, 1.1903 (W. Schultze) — 

 Japan 8 : (H. J. S. Pryer 70795 Mus. Wlsm). HAWAIIA 8 — Oahu 8 : 

 Honolulu, " Tineid of cotton (introduced)," " Highly injurious to cotton " 

 (R. C. L. Perkins, no. 4 : 1901) 8 . 



The species varies in the amount of dark suffusion on the forewings, in some 

 specimens the costal area being almost destitute of dark shading. Exp. al. 

 18-21 mm. In the hindwings veins 3 and 4 are connate or stalked in both Indian 

 and Hawaiian specimens. 



