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MISCELLANEOUS COTTON INSECTS. 
Table VII. — Transformation records of the 
cotton 
■square borer. 
Place. 
Egg laid. |iJ§fed. 
Larva taken. g^| 
Pupated. 
Days 
pupa. 
Adult emerged. 
Adults col- 
lected. 
Junell,full Died. 
grown. 
June 21 . . 
June 23.:. 
July 11 . . . 
Julv 21 ... 
July 25 ... 
August 14. 
....do 
Died. 
8-11 
10 
13 
Died. 
7 
June 25,29 
15 
Julv 17,22 .... 
August 1 
August 7 
August 21 
College 1 
Julv 2 Julv 6 . . 
April 27. 
May 11. 
Tex. 
July 26 . July 28 . 
J 16 
Aug. 2 
Oct. 8, near- , Died. 
iy full 
grown. 
! Died. 
29 
June 15. 
July 14, 21. 

August 7. 

April 2S. May 3 .. 
May 6.. May 11 . 
June 9 
June 30... 
July 19 . . . 
11 
9 
9 
June 20 
Julv 8 
July 28 
April 20. 
August 5,26. 
Julv 30 .. 
Terrell, 
Tex. 

Julv 5 
October 22.. Died. 
September. 6. 
i 
The pupal stage is passed in a folded leaf, which is drawn together 
with a few strands of silk and which is attached to the stalk or under 
some shelter. 
As yet injury by this species has been local, and rarely has any 
considerable amount occurred year after year in the same fields. This 
is undoubtedly due to the exceedingly effective work of the parasites. 
Should remedial measures be desired, thoroughly dusting or spraying 
the foliage of the young plants with Paris green or other arsenical 
will doubtless result in killing many of the young larva?, as they feed 
somewhat upon the foliage in the same manner as the true boll worm. 
Parasites. — As noted above, the June caterpillars are so thoroughly 
parasitized that it is difficult to rear adults from larvae taken from the 
fields. Were it not for this good work of the parasites the insect 
would be a most serious enemy of the planter. Practically all of the 
parasites bred were Apanteles cardidcola Pack., but one lot of cater- 
pillars was parasitized by Metadontia <nii<vn<t Say, which Doctor Ash- 
mead states is "a rare species long lost to science." 
THE COTTON-BOLL CUTWORM. 
(Prodenia ornithogalli Gvien. Figs\ 24 and 25.) 
The larya of this species was commonly observed in north Texas 
feeding upon the foliage of the young cotton plants, and later boring 
into the bolls in the same manner as does the bollworm. The species 
was under study thrpughout the season at Terrell, and the data con- 
cerning its life histor} T are given in the following table: 
Table VIII. 
Eggs laid. 
Transformation records of the cotton boll cutworm.. 
Days 
Eggs hatched. Larva taken. 
Days , 
larva. 
Pupated. 
August 9 . 
August 27 
October i; 
March 30 April 5 
May 14 May 21 
May 28 
June 28 July 4 
July 10 July 15 
18 August 27 
21 i September 17 . 
(i0 December 17 . . 
pupa. 
Moth emerged: 
36 May 11. 
June 9. 
June 12. 
Julv 15. 
July 25. 
September 12. 
September 28. 
January 5.« 
a One moth emerged. 
