244 General Notes. [ March, 
I have queried whether their great numbers at the first observed 
appearance may not be due to the almost entire absence of natural 
enemies, and their subsequent decrease to the presence of the 
a 
same.— Samuel Lockwood, Freehold, N. 
[The devedoseeht is far more rapid than our correspondent 
supposes. There are at least three generations at Washington, 
and doubtless more than one in New Jersey.—Ep. ] 
Foop Hasits oF SAPERDA CRETATA.—In your recent valuable 
article on the food-plants of Cerambycide I notice that no mention 
is made of Saperda cretata. is beautiful species, an account 
of which I published in the Western Stock Fournal and Farmer 
(Dec. No., 1880), has been been taken from the branches of apple 
trees and specimens of both the insect and its work sent me by 
Mr. C. G. Patten, of Charles City, I 
The eggs are evidently laid in pairs, half an inch or more apart 
along the branch, the larvae of each pair upon hatching, working 
in opposite directions around the branch, at first just beneath the 
bark, but afterward (probably after the ‘first year), entering the 
hard wood.—Herbert Osborn, Ames, Lowa 
space OF THE COTTON Wors Mor : EASE WITH WHICH 
MISTAKES ARE MADE.—Mr. I. A. Wimbish, of Cuero, DeWitt Co., 
Texas, writes as follows: 
the ih of December rah beets 6a? F., wind ae SE), whilst flying around the fo 
my ste For some weeks habeas the 
sianeperati chad varied from 22° to 48°, th He? 
vailing wns s having been N. and N.E. Su 
low degree of temperature is unusual in our toca 
ity, and hatha dee ccurs more than once during an 
entire winter 
Bes shown of this moth, * bor time, I regard 
very ae evidence of the uth of the hiber- 
a : 
Fic. 1.—Aletia suey is, that there will be no further danger during the 
remain nder c S 3 : ce 
Before closing this note ill tal k that I have heats a resident 
of this county since 1851, fe have planted skis eight crops of c Of this 
number, I have aces raised 2 
crop, until Be present year, 
which was not more or less in- 
jured by the ances: the dam- 
i r 
Fic. 2.—Leucania uUnipunc ed 
female gbesenieh natural renee ,eye; ¢, srtion of until frost, Nov. hye — er 
female antenna; d, do. male (after Riley). ond ines vow e w 
The specimen sent by Mr. Wimbish was so badly ‘rubbed and 
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