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MISCELLANEOUS COTTON INSECTS. 
specimens were received by the Bureau of Entomology from L. Gold- 
man, Lagrange, Ark., who reported them boring into cotton stalks. 
Injury b} r this species seems to be rather accidental, and probably 
occurs more commonly where fields are weedy, or where they adjoin 
uncultivated fields. 
INSECTS AFFECTING THE FRUIT. 
THE COTTON-SQUARE BORER. 
( Uranotes melinus Hbn. Fig. 23.) 
History. — In the two brief economic accounts of this species already 
published it has been considered as an enemy of beans and hops, but 
no reference to it as a pest of cotton has been found. Mally has 
recorded the similar habits 
of CaVycopis cecrqps Fab. 
{Thed a pceas Hbn.),^ and 
since then much of the inj ury 
due to melinus has been re- 
ferred to the latter species. 
In Texas, although cecrops 
is common, by far the largest 
amount of damage is done 
by tnelinus. 
The records of the Bu- 
reau of Entomology give 
the following data concern- 
ing this species: A larva 
sent by C. V. Riley, September 16, 1878, taken feeding on cotton at 
Augusta, Ga., was found to be parasitized by a species of Apanteles. 
September 1, 1880, a larva on cotton was received from Selma, Ala., 
likewise parasitized. July 6, 1880, a larva was received from R. F. 
Cooke, Marion, Ala., and parasites emerged the next day, seemingly 
Apanteles theclde Rile}'. June 27, 1892, larva? taken on cotton were 
sent by L. T. Sanders, from Plain Dealing, La. Under date of June 
18, 1895, Mr. E. A. Schwarz, investigating the boll weevil, wrote 
from San Diego, Tex. : 
My friends here have brought me during the last two days plenty of squares said 
to be infested by the weevil, and I myself find others, but in every instance the 
author of the mischief is the cotton Thecla, which at present is the only injurious 
insect on cotton here. 
Mr. Schwarz sent larva? of this species from various points in south 
Texas in May and June. One larva was sent by him from Beeville, 
22, 1895, and another one from Bergs Mill, Tex., 
Fig. 23. — Uranotes melinus: a, dorsal view of butterfly; b, 
butterfly, with wings closed; c, larva from side; d, pupa; 
e, egg— all somewhat enlarged, except e, greatly enlarged 
(all except e redrawn from Howard). 
Tex., October 
«1895: Riley and Howard, Insect Life, Vol. VII, pp. 354-355; and 1902: Chit- 
tenden, Bui. 33, n. s., Div. Ent., IT. S. Dept. Agric, pp. 101-102. 
?> 1893: Bui. 29, o. s., Div. Ent., IT. S. Dept. Agric, pp. 29-30. 
