MISCELLANEOUS COTTON INSECTS. 
little true hibernation, and the different broods must overlap one 
another at all seasons. 
Doctor Riley states that the granulated cutworm, Feltia annexa 
Treitschke, probably has three generations in Georgia, and that it is 
the most common cotton cutworm in the South. From the writings of 
Doctor Riley and others, we believe that Agrotis ypsilon Rott. has one 
generation in the most northern States and two in the latitude of 
St. Louis, Mo. 
THE GREASY CUTWORM. 
{Agrotis ypsilon Rott. Fig. 1.) 
Our records concerning this species are as follows: 
Table I. — Transformation records of the greasy cutworm, 1904. 
Place. 
Larva taken. 
Pupated. 
Days 
pupa. 
Moth 
emerged. 
[May 2 
May 21 
Terrell , Tex 
{March 28 
(June 15 
March 15 
1 March 1(1 
) March 28 
Upril 4 
April 2(5 

June 18 
April 28 
15 
July 3 
College Station, Tex 
March 26-29 .. 
April 28 
April 22 a 
20 
May 18 
a Two specimens. 
The average date of pupation of the hibernated larvae Avas, there- 
fore, about April 25, and thus the moths would emerge about the 
middle of May. Very evidently 
the moth emerging July 3 is of a 
second brood. 
The worms were observed feed- 
ing upon onions, cabbage, potatoes, 
and cotton. A moth was taken at 
College Station, May 11, 1903. 
Several pupa? were parasitized by 
the tachinid fly (Go?ila capitata 
DeG.), the first specimens of which 
emerged May 7. 
Previous record*. — This species 
first received careful consideration 
in this country by Riley/' who 
summarizes the knowledge of the 
species at the time of his writing, and describes the larva? and eggx. 
He states that there is either a dual method of hibernation or it is 
double brooded. He records pupa? received from a cotton field at 
Americus, Ga., April 22, from which moths emerged April 24, 1879, 
and a pupa from Virginia Point, Tex., received December 3, from 
Fig. 1.— Agrotis ypsilon: a, larva; ?», head of 
same, c, adult — natural size (after Riley & 
Howard). 
«1869: First Rept. St. Ent, Mo., pp. 80-81, 
Comm. Agr. f. 1884, pp. 294-295. 
28; and 1885: Ann. Rept. U. S. 
