6 BULLETIN 363, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The arrangement or pattern of the pink color is shown in figure 5. 
It appears to be distinctive. 
THE PUPA. 
Somewhat robust, about three times as long as wide; head subtruncately rounded 
at apex; eyes large, black, passing under the basal joints of antenne, showing plainly 
at the sides and from the back; wing-cases and antennal cases reaching nearly to 
penultimate segment; segments well-defined, last segment with rounded area near 
middle and terminating with several short, delicate bristles curved at extreme apices 
like minute hooks; color yellowish brown. 
Length, about 4.5 mm.; width, 1.5 mm. 
Figure 6 shows the ventral view of the pupa at the left and the ~ 
ventral view in outline at the right. 
THE COCOON. 
The larva spins rather copiously and when fully mature it makes a 
cocoon of silk, coated somewhat irregularly on the outer surface with 
frass and other accumulations. A cocoon before 
the writer measures 7 mm. in length and 2.8 mm. 
in width, being subcylindrical and a little larger at 
the end where the head rests than at the anal end. 
The cocoons vary considerably in appearance, some 
being much flattened as shown in Plate II. The 
one described was deposited on a dry husk and 
partakes of the faded gray color of the latter. 
DISTRIBUTION. 
As has already been stated, this species has thus 
far been found most abundantly in Mississippi but 
it inhabits all of the States bordering on the Gulf, 
as also Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, and 
Georgia. (Fig.7.) The southernmost point from 
which it has been reported is Brownsville, Tex., and 
it.is without doubt present in Mexico. The most 
ale Sn ee a northern point isin Tennessee. The species is also 
va, dorsal view. En- ' found in Hawaii and may be native to the Orient, 
eta i although we have no record of this. The probabili- 
ties are that it is not indigenous to Hawaii but may be to Mexico and 
our Gulf States. 
RECORDS OF INJURY. 
The reports which follow are not verbatim but they give a very 
good idea of the nature of injury in different localities and the opin- 
ions of practical growers in regard to losses and danger of future 
eae INJURY DURING 1914. 
November 9, 1914, Mr. W. B. Thomasson, jr., Murfreesboro, Ark., 
sent many ears of old, musty corn, badly injured by the pink corn- 
