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grass, is established from observations and experiments made 
during the winter and spring of 1881-2. The moth has been 
taken at Archer, Fla., during every winter month until the early 
part of March, when it began to disappear, but not until eggs 
were found deposited. The first brood of worms was found of all 
sizes during the latter part of the same month on rattoon cotton, 
while chrysalides and fresh moths were obtained during the early 
exotic country there was no incentive to winter or spring work 
looking to the destruction of the moths, there is now every in- 
during mild winter weather by sweets, or by burning the grass 
under which it shelters. It should also bea warning to cotton- 
growers to abandon the slovenly method of cultivation which 
leaves the old cotton-stalks standing either until the next crop is 
planted or long after that event; for many planters have the habit 
of planting the seed in a furrow between the old rows of stalks. 
e most careful recent researches all tend to confirm the belief 
that Gossypium is the only plant upon which the worm can feed 
in.the South ; so that in the light of the facts presented there is 
all the greater incentive to that mode of culture which will pre- 
vent the growth of rattoon cotton, since it is questionable 
whether the moth will survive long enough to perpetuate itself 
a newly sown cotton except for the intervention of the ratton 
cotton.” 
Possiste Foop-pLants OF THE Corton-worM.—lIn connection 
with the above abstract we are prompted to return once more to 
the subject of the food-plants of Aletia, by a very interesting 
note from Dr. J. S. Bailey in Papilio for December, 1882. He 
7th and 8th, 1882, near Karner, N. Y. On the first evening a 
pled specimen was observed crawling up the sugared tree, 
while on the following evening one specimen appeared which 
evidently had just hatched from the chrysalis, and was shaking 
out its wings while ascending the tree. The other specimens of 
Aletia attracted by the bait were all of them bright and fresh. 
“se tacts observed by such a careful and trustworthy lepidop- 
ist as Dr. Bailey, accord with the conclusions we arrived at in 
discussing the subject in the April (1882) number of this maga- 
sae (P. 327), and seem to us to conclusively prove that Aletia 
a passed at least one generation outside of the cotton belt, and 
that the larva must have fed upon some yet unknown plant dif- 
piia from Gossypium. It is to be regretted that Dr. Bailey 
led to ascertain this food-plant of Aletia in the Northern States, 
it use from the facts given by him, there can be little doubt that 
"Was only a few steps away from the sugared tree. Traces of 
