Report on miscellaneous cotton insects in Texas . r this species seems to be rather accidental, and probablyoccurs more commonly where fields are weedy, or where they adjoinuncultivated fields. INSECTS AFFECTING THE THE COTTON-SQUARE BORER. ( Uranotes melinus Hbn. Fig. 23.) History.—In the two brief economic accounts of this species alreadypublished0 it has been considered as an enemy of beans and hops, butno reference to it as a pest of cotton has been found. Mally has recorded the similar habitsof CaVycopis cecrqps Fab.{Theda pceas Hbn.),^ andsince then much of the inj urydue to meli
Report on miscellaneous cotton insects in Texas . r this species seems to be rather accidental, and probablyoccurs more commonly where fields are weedy, or where they adjoinuncultivated fields. INSECTS AFFECTING THE THE COTTON-SQUARE BORER. ( Uranotes melinus Hbn. Fig. 23.) History.—In the two brief economic accounts of this species alreadypublished0 it has been considered as an enemy of beans and hops, butno reference to it as a pest of cotton has been found. Mally has recorded the similar habitsof CaVycopis cecrqps Fab.{Theda pceas Hbn.),^ andsince then much of the inj urydue to melinus has been re-ferred to the latter Texas, although cecropsis common, by far the largestamount of damage is doneby tnelinus. The records of the Bu-reau of Entomology givethe following data concern-ing this species: A larvasent by C. V. Riley, September 16, 1878, taken feeding on cotton atAugusta, Ga., was found to be parasitized by a species of 1, 1880, a larva on cotton was received from Selma, Ala.,likewise parasitized. July 6, 1880, a larva was received from R. , Marion, Ala., and parasites emerged the next day, seeminglyApanteles theclde Rile}. June 27, 1892, larva? taken
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