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had pupated beneath the surface. This record, from the nature of the 
case, is entirely too limited to generalize from, further than to note that 
if any relation exists between the larval color and that of the moth 
there are exceptions. These exceptions prevail, also, for the conditions 
of dryness, moisture, and surface pupation in relation to the same ques- 
tion. 
The numerous plants upon which the female deposits, together with 
her reckless habit of miscellaneous deposition, compels the wander- 
ing about of many of the recently-hatched larvae which find themselves 
in unfavorable circumstances and perish in their search for more suit- 
able conditions. The loss occasioned by this misdirected deposition 
accounts in part, as has already been noted, under the head of "Other 
Food-plants ,? for the small number of worms as compared with the 
number of eggs which a single female is capable of depositing. 
When the females come out from their hiding places they confine 
themselves almost entirely to their host plants, either for feeding or for 
deposition. From the time of hatching to the end of the egg-laying 
period they are bent upon business whenever they appear, and their 
attention is not easily distracted. This fact becomes of great impor- 
tance in the use of lights and poisoned sweets, and will be considered 
more fully subsequently. 
The food habits of the moth are not injurious at any time or in any 
manner. Some planters assert that in depositing their eggs they punc- 
ture the squares and forms, causing them to drop. The fact is that the 
ovipositor of the female is not strong enough to perform such an act. 
and, furthermore, the eggs are laid on the surface. 
NUMBER OF BROODS AND HIBERNATION. 
At Shreveport the first brood of larvae resulting from imagos which 
hatched from hibernating puppe matures about June 1. The second 
brood begins to appear about the 10th of June. The larval state of the 
first brood is about fifteen days, and the pupal state about ten days. 
For the third and fifth broods the time is more variable and the pupal 
state may run from fifteen days to over a month, or the entire winter. 
The majority of the fifth brood of pupae pass the winter as such, though 
a few issue before the season closes aud hibernate as moths. These 
hibernating moths appear and begin depositing much earlier than, and 
make a troublesome confusion of broods with, those resulting from 
hibernating pupae. This, together with the fact that Boll Worms — 
many quite young — can be found at Shreveport. I. a., as late as No- 
vember 20 justifies the statement that for that locality, beginning in 
the spring with the few hibernating moths, we have a series of small 
broods along with the regular ones, the former producing a sixth brood 
which hibernates in the pupal state, the latter only \\\e broods of which 
a few of the last hatch and hibernate as imagos. This mixing of broods 
explains why full-grown larva' and newly hatched ones are found simul- 
