NOTES. [121] 



wing whitish, a wavy dark band near the "border. Thorax slightly convex, downy; 

 abdomen color of wings, downy ; proboscis folded spirally underneath, double, half 

 inch long; eyes large, clear, yellowish-green. Legs six, antennje fusiform, palpi very 

 hairy, flies only late in the evening and at night, lies concealed in the day in jams of 

 the fence, around stumps and in the grass and weeds, flies rapid and low." 



Note 61 (p. 358). — Heliothia umbrosus. Grote's description is as follows: 

 ' 'Anterior wings yellowish-gray crossed by several indistinct irregular darker shaded 

 lines. Discal spot blackish beyond which is a row of minute black dots one on each 

 nervule running parallel with the outer margin of the wing and connected with each 

 other by a faint waved line the curvatures turned inward toward the base of the wing; 

 fringes dark. Posterior wings yellowish-white without markings except a broad 

 blackish band running parallel with the outer margin and which is partly interrupted 

 near the centre by a space of a similar color to the rest of the wing; fringes white. 

 Under surface of the wings pale showing the black discal spot on the anterior wings 

 plainly, outside of which is a blackish transverse band and a small blackish streak 

 near the upper margin. Under surface of posterior wings immaculate except a faint 

 blackish shade near the outer margin. Head, thorax and tegulae yellowish-gray, 

 darker than the anterior wings. Body grayish, clothed at the sides with whitish hairs, 

 and darkening towards the tip. Exp. H inches." — [Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., vol. 1 

 (1861-1863), p. 219. 



Note 62 (p. [64]). — ^We reproduce almost verbatim the remarks on Mr. Edes' mate- 

 rial, as given in the American Entomologist, vol. iii, pp. 128-129: 



[Mr. Edes kindly accompanied his communication with specimens, upon which we 

 will add a few remarks. The worm that takes the place of our Aletia is, both by the 

 colored drawing and the specimens sent, easily distinguished from Aletia. The four 

 moths are in poor condition and show some variation. The species is one of the 

 smallest of the genus Anomis, and between illita Gn. and Hiibner's figure of exacta, of 

 which Professor Grote kindly had a copy made for us. In the larva the front pair of 

 abdominal prolegs is perfectly obsolete and the second pair of nearly the same size as 

 the others. The piliferous spots are reddish without pale annulation. The chrysalis 

 has the cremaster less swollen at tip, but otherwise, except "in smaller size, is undis- 

 tinguishable. 



The egg is so similar to that of Aletia that it is doubtful whether there are any con- 

 stant distinguisMng characters; the ribs in the single specimen examined are some- 

 what fewer in number and consequently more marked. 



That this is the ''Cotton Worm" of Bahia is interesting from the fact that Aletia 

 was described by Hiibner from that place. If, as we cannot well doubt, Mr. Grote 

 has correctly determined Hiibner's figure of Aletia to represent Say's Noctua xylina, it 

 will also yet be found there. There is a possibility, however, that the figure has mis- 

 led, and the description of Hiibner is certainly of no value as a guide. 



The cotton bolls contained the following insects, which all appear to have fed upon 

 the seeds : (1) a small Tineid, badly robbed but distinct from the species so abundantly 

 found in the United States under similar conditions, and which is figured by Profes- 

 sor Glover as possibly T. granella, but is, as Mr. Chambers informs us, a new species 

 of Laverna. It is, however, a different species. (2) Several specimens of Hypothe- 

 nemus eruditus Westw. {Hspidulus Lee), which has also been found in diseased cotton 

 bolls in the United States and on the Bahama Islands, and which also bores in the 

 twigs of the dead plants. (3) Two specimens of a ParatenetuSf differing from the 

 allied North American P. punctatus, which is found is diseased cotton bolls in the 

 United States, by its very strongly dentate thorax. (4) One specimen of a Crypto- 

 phagid beetle, apparently undescribed and not occurring in the United States. (5) 

 Four specimens of Arceocerus fasciculatus, a cosmopolitan beetle found in articles of 

 commerce and frequently observed in diseased cotton bolls in the. Southern States. 



The large bug is the Cotton Stainer (Dysdercus suturellus H.-S.), also found in the 

 United States and greatly injurious to cotton on the Bahamas.] 



Note 63 (p. [65]). — A large Sphingid larva, probably of Macrosila rustica. 



Note 64 (p. [66]). — The worms sent by Senor Enriquez were the genuine Aletia, as 

 shown on p. 41. 



