REPORTS OF DR. E. H. ANDERSON. 
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1 * 1 1 1 up a number of ehrysalids in wire-gauze box No. 5, and also in glass jar No. G. 
October 18.— One moth out in No. 5 box. 
October 19.— Rain. Temperature, 56° P. 
October 20.— Two moths out in box No. 4 (not Aletia); 2 out in No. 5; 7 out in No. 
2. tad 1 parasite. Temperature 52° F., 8 a. m. Put up 10 ehrysalids in glass box 
No. 7, top and sides glass, bottom wood. This inteuded as a vivarium for observing 
copulation aud procreation. 6 p.m., temperature f>0 o F. All the above ehrysalids 
were found in leaves of Convolvulus, cotton stalks bare. 
October 21.— One moth out in box No. 7. Temperature, 50° F., 7 a. m. Put five eg^ 
on glass on box No. 1. Put up 61 ehrysalids iu wooden box with wire gauze top No. 
8, soil on bottom, ehrysalids laid loosely on top of soil. Temperature, 60° F. Raiu. 
October 22.— Four moths out in No. 5 and 4 iu No. 7. Temperature, 66° F., 8 p. m. 
October 2:*. — Rain. 
October 24.— Temperature, 68° F.,8 a. m. ; 1 moth out in No. 4 ; 5 moths out in No. 
o : (i moths out in No. 7 ; 8- moths out in No. 2. 
October 25. — Temperature, 48° F., 8 a. m. 
October 26. — Light frost; 7 moths out in No. 7. 
October 27.— One dead moth in box No. 4. Temperature, 60° F., a.m. Visited a 
Held where the worms had stripped southern portion, leaving a strip in northern p u t 
in lull foliage; kbit >t rip skirted east and west by forest. Found a few ehrysalids, 
no larva, Bras, ot moths. These ehrysalids were of the fifth brood. Rainy day. 
October 2tf. — Visited a field with a small area left unstripped. Found a few larva 
full grown, black color predominating, still feeding but languid in appearance. No 
Iri sh eggs found, Brought in a number of ehrysalids, many of which have not com- 
pleted their transfonnat ion. An inspection indicai I m I l< aii\ that the case is farmed 
from the larval integuments, the bodv forming its own sarcophagus. Rain. Temper- 
ature, 64° F. 
October 29.— Transferred 7 ehrysalids from box No. 1 to No. 3. Placed 21 ehrysalids, 
brought in on the 27th, in box No. 1. Fifteen moths out in No. 5j 13 out in No. I. 
Temperature, 64° F., 8 a.m. 
October 31. — Forty moths out in No. 5 ; 3 out in No. ; 8 moths out in No. 7. Tem- 
perature 58° F. Cloudv. Revisited a field vi>it« «l OB the loth and found but little 
of the second growth of cotton left. Found a few larva- large and small of the fifth 
brood, and also a number of fresh eggs on top leaves, as many as eight to the leaf, and, 
in one instance, twin eggs twice on tho same leaf near together. These I have placed 
in a glass bottle, cutting the leaf into small sections, with the egg as deposited. 
Aphis and auts quite abundant. Only found ants among colonies of Aphides. Not iced 
tbat the leaves from which the bee had sucked all the juice of the parcnehym:i, and 
w hu h were about to fall, w ere covered with lice. Wlmt becomes of the lice when they 
reach the ground f 
.Xomnbcr 1. — Visited two lb his where there is yet considerable- foliage j searched for 
larva* and eggs of llclinthis urmifjeni, but found none, and no indications of their pres- 
ence, though green and \ oung bolls were abundant. Brought in a few eggs and chrys- 
aiids of Ah tia. Temperature, r,8 c F. clear. 
November 2. — Sixty moths out in No. 6. These were put up on the 15th, and have 
developed more rapidly than others. Moths in No. 7 (vivarium) depositing eggs. 
Temperature r ( | F., S a. m.; weather (dear. As the weather becomes cooler, have 
noticed the tendency of the mot hs to crowd together. 
November '.'>. — Visited a field of fresh land cotton where I found northeast corner not 
eaten by the worm, the rest of the field bare. The leaves nibbled here and then; and 
fresh and full of ehrysalids : no fresh eggs. Found a few full-grown larvaj feeding. 
Search -d diligently for Heliothis aud examined a number of young and grown bolls, 
but found no eggs or perforations in the bolls or any sign whatever. No lice or ants 
were observed on this cotton. Temperature 43° P., 7 a. m. Brought in a number of 
ehrysalids ami a lot of larvsB. 
In regard to Heliothis I may remark that, probably owing to drought, thoyhavedone 
no damage to cotton, and my inability to find them is owing to the fact of its desertion 
of cotton for other vegetation more succulent. I am at this date gathering green to- 
matoes and find a large proportion perforated by Heliothis and many ruined, so that in 
several bushels I lose a fifth or sixth, say about 20 per cent. My opinion is that 
we have here but four broods of Heliothis annually, first in corn, second and third in 
cotton, and last in garden and other vegetation. 
November 4. — Temperature 34° F., 7 a. m. On visiting my garden, examined a cot- 
ton stalk in full foliage at the end of a tomato bed and found Aletia eggs on many 
of the top leaves and found two on outside of involucre. On one leaf found as many 
as eight eggs, two side by side in close proximity. Found also a young boll which 
had been perforated by a Boll Worm, but fouud no larva or egg on the stalk. Found 
two Heliothis armigera on tomato, one-half buried in the fruit; these I sent you. 
The frost has been a nipping one. 
Found moths in box No. 5 crowded together and many in a torpid condition that 
