346 REPORT 4, UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
"The species under consideration appears to be quite generally dis- 
tributed over most of the Gulf States wherever its food plant ( Urena 
lobata), and possibly other nearly related plants, are found growing. 
" The belief that the eggs of the species now under consideration were 
those of Aletia was strengthened in the minds of those who first found 
them by the inference that after the disappearance of cotton, Aletia 
would have to search for other suitable plants to sustain its offspring 
until new cotton should commence to grow the following spring ; but, so 
far, neither its eggs nor its larvae have ever been discovered upon any 
other plant than cotton. 
" The eggs of this Anomis, which so far have been found only on the 
leaves of Urena, appear, if examined with a common hand-lens, to be 
structurally indistinguishable from those of Aletia, and were sent to the 
Department from Florida by Dr. J. C. Keal, with the assurance that they 
really belouged to that insect, and that its winter food-plant was dis- 
covered. An examination under the microscope, however, showed con- 
siderable differences, notwithstanding the great similarity in size and 
sculpture. The color is, moreover, paler, and not of the peculiar bright- 
green characteristic of Aletia, and it is by this character that the egg of 
the Anomis may be distinguished from the other, when fresh, by the ordi- 
nary observer. 
"The radial ridges are more numerous, ranging between 35 and 40, 
and the transverse ribs from 12 to 14. The radiating ribs of the Aletia 
egg are considerably rounded, with the spaces between them rather 
narrow, appearing like deeply-impressed striae, while the ribs of the 
Anomis egg are sharp and triangular if viewed from above, with the 
spaces between them shallower and broader. The intersection of the 
transverse with the radial ribs of Aletia are not sharp, and are only 
marked by low, rounded elevations. Anolher quite marked feature of 
the eggs of Aletia is the arrangement of the radial ribs in five groups, 
connected with each other by an elevated ridge which forms around the 
center a large pentangular cell, into each angle of which one of the 
radial ribs terminates, the other ribs between them being somewhat 
shorter and connected by the terminal transverse rib. This arrange- 
ment is quite noticeable in fresh eggs, but still more in dry ones. The 
radial ribs in this Anomis, however, are not arranged in separate 
groups, and the longest ones surround the center in a perfect circle with- 
out terminating in a circum-central rib. 
" This Urena Anomis is exclusively a Southern species, and it con- 
tinues breeding with scarcely any intermission throughout the whole 
year. Moths have been captured in various parts of the South from 
August, throughout the winter, till May, and the eggs and larvae of dif- 
ferent sizes are found in Florida throughout the winter. 
"The general habits of the larvae are quite similar to those of Ale- 
tia, though as a rule the Anomis larvae are less active, especially after 
they have attained one half their growth. The newly-batched larva' 
