562 ZOOLOGY. 
Pouchet adds in conclusion, that in the eyeless jipe be 
pigment cells are wanting.— (Translated by Dr. Mary 
from Schmidt's Jahrbücher, No. 9,18 72). 
Tue Corron Worm.—I have already shown that this insect is 
first described and named scientifically by Hübner in 1822, as 
Aletia argillacea from Brazil. It is an inhabitant of more south 
ern latitudes than the cotton belt of the Southern States. Ihave 
shown that the insect is found during the winter as a moth, not 
from “ analogy,” but fact. I have also shown that the insect dies 
` out in the central and northern portions of the cotton belt every 
year, and is replaced the succeeding year by immigration from 
more southern localities, and where the cotton plant is perennial. 
Prof. Glover’s observations on the moth seem to me to be gener- 
ally correct and reliable ; on the other hand, Prof. Riley’ s remarks 
in the Sixth Missouri Report are, where Prof. Glover is cope 
dicted, a “ too hasty generalizing,” and show nowhere any oti : 
acquaintance with the subject. The moths have been collected by 
Prof. Packard on an island in Salem harbor, Mass. ; and by Mr. | 
Burgess in Massachusetts Bay, flying over the water, and by BY 
self about Buffalo, N. Y. The worm never attacks the young cot- | 
ton in Central Alabama in the spring or early summer, but appears | 
at its earliest at the end of June, and is invariably pen : 
flights of the adult moth. Since in Central Alabama insect lie 
begins as early as March (and before then the “ hybernated A 3 
ton moth has disappeared) what is the Aletia argillacea doing y 
tween that date and July, when the worm appears? And why | 
the young cotton not attacked in May by the worms from the co : 
deposited by the “‘hybernating” moths? If the 
moths lay eggs, their progeny perish from lack of food. boil : 
chrysalides are killed by frost, and there is great aan : of : 
the completion of the final brood of moths arising from the atts : 
the insect and the approach of the winter—A. R. GROTE. 
and pups 
Larva or ÅNOPTHALMUS AND ADELOPS. — The larv® à 
of Anopthalmus, from Salt cave near Mammoth, were di 
in May last by Mr Sanborn and myself while engaged in pe 
ing the caves of Kentucky under the auspices of the wea. 
Survey of Kentucky. The larve of Anopthalmus Wer y 
running under stones on the sand in damp situations in £ a 
with the beetles, while the pupæ were found lying ™ in lit 
