Bui. 63, Part VII, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Dept. o< Agriculture 



Plate III 



The Cotton Stalk-borer (Ataxia crypta). 



Fig. 1.— Adult or beetle. Fig. 2.— a, Galleries; b, work. Fig. 3.— Emergence holes of adults. 

 Fig A.— a, Larva in situ; b, pupa in situ. Fig. 5.— o, Gallery running into root of plant: 6, 

 castings behind larva. Fig. 1 twice natural size; figs. 2-5 two-thirds natural size. (Original. ) 



