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*Sida najjcea Cav. — Rocky river banks, Pennsylvania, York County, Kanawha County, 

 Virginia. (Cultivated in old gardens.) 

 elUottii T. & G. — Sandy soil, Southern Virginia and southward. 

 * s2)inosa L. — Waste places, common southward. 



Ahuiilon avicennw G^rtu. — Waste places, escaped from gardens. (Adv. from India.) 

 Modiola multifida Mcench. — Low grounds, Virginia and southward. 

 Kosteletzkya virginica Presl. — Marshes on the coast, New York to Virginia and south- 

 ward. 

 Hibiscus moscheutos L. — Brackish marshes along the coast, sometimes extending up 

 rivers far beyond the influenoe of salt wa^er (as above 

 Harrisburg, Penna.), also Onondaga Lake, New York, and 

 westward, usually within the influence of salt springs. 

 grandiflorus Michx. — Illinois and southward. 



militaris Cav. — River banks, Pennnsylvania to Illinois and southward. 

 trionum L. — Escaped from gardens or grounds. (Adv. from Eu.) 

 syriacus L. — Escaped from gardens or grounds. (Adv. from Eu.) 



Note 16 (p. 17). — ^We append a description of the larva of Aspila virescens : 

 Smooth, soft, translucent, with the normal complement of 16 legs. Color either 

 green orlilaceous. Finely speckled, with pale yellowish spots (appearing under the 

 lens as fleshy elevations), arranged in a somewhat* longitudinal manner, and forming 

 along the stigmatal region a tolerably well marked band ; the stigmata, which are in 

 the upper portion of this band, being black, with a carneous center and white annu- 

 lation. Piliferous spots in normal position, very small, dark, with a paler annula- 

 tion , the haira fine and translucent. The two posterior joints somewhat squarely 

 cat off. Head, thoracic legs, and cervical shield polished and slightly more yellow 

 than body. 



Full grown in July ; imago issuing in August of same year. 



Note 17 (p. 18).— Both in 1878 and 1879 Mr. Schwarz traveled throughoirt the south- 

 ern portion of the cotton belt and visited the Bahamas, one of his special instructions 

 being to learn, if possible, something definite as to the winter quarters of the moth. 

 The gist of his results is given in a report published in Appendix I in the Report upon 

 Cotton Insects, Department of Agriculture, 1879, pp. 347-349, while he also furnished 

 Professor Comstock {ibid., pp. 349, 350) with a fair summary of the conclusions that 

 we had' then come to both from his observations, our own, and those of others in the 

 investigation then being pursued. 



Note 18 (p. 18). — The Flatyhijpena scabra (Fabr.) of Grote's List. Its larva is grass- 

 green in color, with a medio-dorsal and sub-dorsal lines of a darker green, the latter 

 bordered below by a whitish line. It is cylindrical and witk but three pairs of 

 abdominal prolegs. It feeds on clover, and also on Bobinia. The chrysalis is formed 

 in some sheltered situation and surrounded with white silken threads; is dark and 

 slender like that of Aletia, but the tip is armed with two strong, slightly diverging 

 spines. In Missouri this chrysalis may be found under bark during winter, and it 

 doubtless hibernates in both chrysalis and imago state in the South. (See chapter XV= ) 



Note 19 (p. 19). — Our notes show that larvae of this species (Phoberia atomaris Hiib.) 

 were found at Saint Louis, Mo., May 13, 1873, on oak and under chips. Most of 

 these had entered the ground by the 29th and had transformed to pupae June 18. 

 Larvae of the same species were also found at Fortress Monroe, Va., July 19, 1882, 

 near the base of a live-oak. 



Note 20 (p. 20). — It was our privilege to follow the reading of this paper with some 

 remarks expressing our generat.appreciation of it, but urging at the same time some 

 qualifications of the theory, and the belief that the insect hibernated in the more 

 southern portion of the belt. These remarks seem to have had some weight, for in 

 the printed copy of the paper in the Proceedings of the Association a qualifying 



