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*Sida napcea Cav. — Rocky river banks, Pennsylvania, York County, Kanawha County, 
Virginia. (Cultivated in old gardens.) 
elliottii T. & G.— Sandy soil, Southern Virginia and southward. 
* spinosa L. — Waste places, common southward. 
Abulilon uvicennce Guertu. — Waste places, escaped from gardens. (Adv. from India.) 
Modiola muWfida Mcench.— Low grounds, Virginia and southward. 
Kostcletzlya virginica Presl. — Marshes on the coast, New York to Virginia and south- 
ward. 
Hibiscus moscheutos L. — Brackish marshes along the coast, sometimes extending up 
rivers far beyond the influenoe of salt wajer (as above 
Harrisburg, Penna.), also Onondaga Lake, New York, and 
westward, usually within the influence of salt springs. 
grandiflorus Michx. — Illinois and southward. 
miUtaris Cav.— River banks, Pennsylvania to Illinois and southward. 
trionum L. — Escaped from gardens or grounds. (Adv. from Eu.) 
8yriacus L. — Escaped from gardens or grounds. (Adv. from Eu.) 
Note 16 (p. 17). — We append a description of the larva of Aspila virescens: 
Smooth, soft, translucent, w^ith the normal complement of 16 legs. Color either 
green orlilaceous. Finely speckled, with pale yellowish spots (appearing under the 
lens as fleshy elevations), arranged in a somewhat longitudinal manner, and forming 
along the stigmatal region a tolerably well marked band ; the stigmata, which are in 
the upper portion of this band, being black, with a carneous center and white annu- 
lation. Piliferous spots in normal position, very small, dark, with a paler annula- 
tion, the hairs fine and translucent. The two posterior joints somewhat squarely 
cat off. Head, thoracic legs, and cervical shield polished and slightly more yellow 
than body. 
Full grown in July; imago issuing in August of same year. 
Note 17 (p. 18). — Both in 1878 and 1879 Mr. Schwarz traveled throughout the south- 
ern portion of the cotton belt and visited the Bahamas, one of his special instructions 
being to learn, if possible, something definite as to the winter quarters of the moth. 
The gist of his results is given in a report published in Appendix I in the Report upon 
Cotton Insects, Department of Agriculture, 1879, pp. 347-349, while he also furnished 
Professor Comstock (ibid., pp. 349. 350) with a fair summary of the conclusions that 
we bad then come to both from his*observations, our own, and those of others in the 
investigation then being pursued. 
Note 18 (p. 18). — The Platyhypena scabra (Fabr.) of Grote's List. Its larva is grass- 
green in color, with a medio-dorsal and sub-dorsal lines of a darker green, the latter 
bordered below by a whitish line. It is cylindrical and with but three pairs of 
abdominal prolegs. It feeds on clover, and also on Iiobinia. The chrysalis is formed 
in some sheltered situation and surrounded with white silken threads; is dark and 
slender like that of Aletia, but the tip is armed with two strong, slightly diverging 
spines. In Missouri this chrysalis may be found under bark during winter, and it 
doubt lesshibernates in both chrysalis and imago state in the South. (See chapter XV. ) 
Not£ 19 (p. 19). — Our notes show that larvee of this species (Phoberia aiomaris Hiib.) 
were found at Saint Louis, Mo., May 13, 1873, on oak and under chips. Most of 
these had entered the ground by the 29th and had transformed \o pupa? June 18. 
Larva. of the same species were also found at Fortress Monroe, Va., July 19, 1882, 
near the base of a live-oak. 
Note 20 (p. 20). — It was our privilege to follow the reading of this paper with some 
remarks expressing our general appreciation of it, but urging at the same time some 
qualifications of the theory, and the belief that the insect hibernated in the more 
BOatheiS portion of the belt, These remarks seem to bave had some weight, for in 
the printed copy of the paper in the Proceedings of the Association a qualifying 
