8 BULLETIN 732, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
figs oviposit in the winter crop and thus the cycle of the yearly life 
of the insect is completed. 
Doubts have been expressed as to the existence of three distinct 
crops of caprifigs, and with good reason, for at times and in some 
climates belated mammoni hibernate with themamme. H. G. Solms- 
Laubach says that in Europe there is no sharp distinction between 
Fig. 4.—Mature profichi caprifigs with Blastophaga about ready toissue. (About two-thirdsnatural size.) 
the mammoni and the mamme crops and that fruits of the former 
crop which do not mature in the fall remain as mamme over winter. 
They both occupy the same position on the branch, both developing 
on the new wood. The chief difference between the two is that the 
former contains a well-defined cluster of staminate flowers, while in 
the mamme with rare exceptions no male flowers have been observed 
