. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture. 6 BULLETIN 363, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. The arrangement or pattern of the pink color is shown in figure 5. It appears to be distinctive. THE PUPA. Somewhat robust, about three times as long as wide; head subtruncately rounded at apex; eyes large, black, passing under the basal joints of antennae, showing plainly at the sides and from the back; wing-cases and antennal cases reaching nearly to penultimate segment; segments well-defined, last segment with rounded area near middle and terminating with several short, delicate b
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture. 6 BULLETIN 363, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. The arrangement or pattern of the pink color is shown in figure 5. It appears to be distinctive. THE PUPA. Somewhat robust, about three times as long as wide; head subtruncately rounded at apex; eyes large, black, passing under the basal joints of antennae, showing plainly at the sides and from the back; wing-cases and antennal cases reaching nearly to penultimate segment; segments well-defined, last segment with rounded area near middle and terminating with several short, delicate bristles curved at extreme apices like minute hooks; color yellowish brown. Length, about mm.; width, mm. Figure 6 shows the ventral view of the pupa at the left and the ventral view in outline at the right. THE COCOON. The larva spins rather copiously and when fully mature it makes a cocoon of silk, coated somewhat irregularly on the outer surface with frass and other accumulations. A cocoon before the writer measures 7 mm. in length and mm. in width, being subcylindrical and a little larger at the end where the head rests than at the anal end. The cocoons vary considerably in appearance, some being much flattened as shown in Plate II. The one described was deposited on a dry husk and partakes of the faded gray color of the latter. DISTRIBUTION. As has already been stated, this species has thus far been found most abundantly in Mississippi but it inhabits all of the States bordering on the Gulf, as also Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia. (Fig. 7.) The southernmost point from which it has been reported is Brownsville, Tex., and without doubt present in Mexico. The most ^worm^un-SwnT- northern point is in Tennessee. The species is also va, dorsal view. En- ' found in Hawaii and may be native to the Orient, although we have no record of this. The probabili- ties are that it is not indigenous to Hawaii but may be to Mexico and our Gulf States. RECOR
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