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man who can write q work on cotton cul-
The truth Of the matter is that,
when they have completed their growth,
the worms fold over the edge Of a leaf
Zig. l Cd and, after lining the inside
with silk, change to chrysalides Gig. !
IL which are at first green, but soon
acquire q chestnut-brown color. After
remaining in this last state lin which,
though the insect Is inactive, it is yet
full Of life, and undergoing wonderful
deyelopmentJ from seven to fourteen
days, or even longer, the moth escapes,
the chrysalis being held fast within the
cocoon by means Of several very minute
hooks with which the tail is furnished.
At figure 2 a, this moth is represented
with the wings expanded, and at b, with
the wings closed. The general color Of
the upper surface is a golden-yellow in
clining TO buff, with a faint olive tint
uear the outer or posterior margin. The
front wings are crossed, as in the above
figures, by more or less distinct, irregu-
lar l~ilac-colored lines. But the chief
characteristic is q dark slate-colored, or
black spot on the front wings, in which
there are paler scales forming almost a
double pupil as represented in the fig
ures, while between this spot and the
base of the wings there is a much
smaller pure white dot. In general
color and in the position OF the larger
spot, this moth bears a remarkable re-
semblancc 10 that of the true Army.
worm Of the Northern and Middle
States.
Mr.. Afleck, who certainly had album
dant opportunities for observing the
fact, assured me that this moth rests
in the position shown in figure 2 B.,
namely, with the head dowuvaris. He
wrote on August 22d, 1868 "The Cot
| ton moth lOphjnsa ryii0a Of Harris in
his correspondence with myself never
alights in any other position, or if by
accident it first assumes another pc.
sition, it instantly wheels around hcad
| d0nn."
According to the best authority, there
are three different broods Of worms du-
ring the year, the first appearing in
June or July, and the last, which does
the most damage, appearing in August
or September, or even later. Mr.. Ly-
| man, in the little work already referred
to, says "That nature has made no
provision by which either the fly, the
worm, the chrysalis or the eggs, can
survive the winter or exist for any
length Of time where the cotton plant
is not a perennial" But this is surely
an error, which Mr.. Lyman would never
er have made, had he possessed a better
knowledge of insect-lifo and as Mr..
Glover found that the chrysalis was
killed by the slightest, frost, the insect
evidently winters over in the moth
state, as do many others belonging to
the same tribe. Mr.. w. b. Scabrook
gives strong evidence that this is the
case, in a Memoir on the Cotton
Plant" read in 1913, before tho State
Agricultural Society Of South Carolina,
wherein he says: "That the Cotton
! Moth survives the winter is nearly GER
tain. An examination of the neighbor-
boring woods, especially after n mild
winter, has often been successfully
made for that purpose" And DR..
Phares states positively that the moth
hybernates in piles of cotton seed under
shelter, under bark and in creyiccs OF
trccs in dense forests and other seclud,
ed places, and that it may often be seer
on peasants days in winter.
Patent Office Report, 1855, p. II.
We have fondly thought that nobody
could be more prudent, more saving,
hal the Danbury man who, not having
a dollar "limpscy" enough to send to
the missionaries, kindly sent his re-
CARDS instead. But he is surpassed by
a Bostonian, a man of wealth, and a
substantial church-goer, This person,
sitting serenely in his pew the other
day, wrapped in the consciousness OF
virtue, cushions and good dinners, was
hurriodly addressed by an adjacent
FREUD, who, having to leave the church
abruptly, intrustcd him with the gum
Of one dollar for the contribution-box.
The friend departed, the box appeared,
and then this pillar, this condensation