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 Note 15 [102] 



Possible food-plants of larva of A. xylina, [102] — there must be some be- 

 sides cotton, [102] — failure to find any other, [102] — feeding of larva of 

 Anomis erosa on TJrena lohata, [102] — value of fiber of U. lohata, [102] — 

 geographical distribution of U. lohata, [103] — eggs and larva of ^womis 

 erosa distinguished from those of Aletia xylina, [103] — examination of 

 malvaceous plants in herbarium of U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 [103] — disadvantages of such an examination, [103] — plants on which 

 eggs were found in the herbarium, [103] — petition for aid in obtaining 

 evidence of the food-plant of ^. xylina in the more northern States, [103] — 

 list of malvaceous plants growing in these States, with localities, [103]. 



Note 16 [104] 



Description of larva of Aspila virescens, [104]. 



Note 17 [104] 



Travels of E. A. Schwarz in 1878 and 1879, [104] — reference to published 

 accounts of the results of his investigations and those of others on hiber- 

 nation of A. xylina, [104J. 



Note 18 [104] 



Flatyhypena scdbra, [104] — characters of larva, [104] — food-plants of larva, 

 [104]— pupation and hibernation, [104] — characters of pupa, [104]. 



Note 19 [104] 



Seasons of larva of PJwheria atomaris, [104]. 



Note 20 [104] 



Criticism of paper by A. E. Grote on hibernation of A. xylina, [104] — Grote's 

 arguments against hibernation, based on experience gained in the same 

 regions which furnish arguments against the theory of annual immigra- 

 tion, [105] — possibility of hibernation admitted by Grote, [105]. 



Note 21 [105] 



Definition of northern and southern portions of cotton belt, [105]. 



Note 22 [105] 



References to discussion of J. P. Stelle's claim to have first recommended 

 publicly the use of Paris green for A. xylina, [105]. 



Note 23 [105] 



Eeferences to descriptions and figures of brush-sacs of moths, [105]. 



Note 24 [105] 



Worms worse in wet weather than in dry because more protected from ene- 

 mies, [105] — localities of first appearance of worms are those of least 

 molestation, [105]. 



Note 25 1 [106] 



Appetite of swine for cotton worms, [106] — worms eaten by dogs and cats, 

 [106]. 



Note 26 [106] 



Reference to list of birds of southern States, [106]. 



Note 27 [106] 



Range of English sparrow in United States, [106] — in hotter portions of the 

 country it is confined to towns and villages, [106]. 



Note 28 1 [106] 



Report by Dr. Geo. Marx on spiders found on cotton, [106] — preliminary 

 list of spiders which destroy iusects noxious to agriculture, [106] — list of 

 spiders observed to devour larvae of Aletia xylina, [108] — how they cap- 

 ture their victims, [106] — food habits of Theridula sphaenila, [107]— ob- 

 servatious on habits of Gxyopes vindanf>, by H. G. Hubbard, [107] — ants 

 captured by larva? of a Cicindela, [107]. 



Note 29 ,,„ [107] 



Description of imago of Trichogramma pretiosa, [107], 



