painted white, with Venetian blinds, | as a slight change takes place after each and latticed verandas supported by slen- skin is cast off. Their duration in the der and graceful pillars, running round larva state is six weeks, in which time every side of the dwelling. Along the they feed voraciously; they' then spin whole western front, festooned in mas- their cocoons, and remain in the pupa sive folds, hung a dark-green curtain, state a longer or shorter time, according which was dropped along the whole to the season of the year. The moths length of the balcony in a summer's that remain in the pupa until the followafternoon." ing spring, will be those whose larvæ will destroy the summer's crop. Should the fall and winter be favorable to the premature development of the moth, the planters may be grateful, as it will be their greatest safeguard, unless they will gather and destroy the pupa.

THE MOTH.-The cotton crops are liable to extensive injury by a noxious insect, called the cotton moth, of which the following description was recently published:

"The cotton moth, or noctua xylina, appears in the spring, when the cottonplant is in a fit state to receive the eggs. She places these on the leaves of the plant to the number of from two to six hundred; these hatch in from two to five days, according to the weather. The young larvæ are very minute, but grow rapidly, attaining their full size of one and a half inches in from fourteen to twenty days, during which time, like their congeners, they moult every eight days. The difference in the color of the worms is owing to their moulting,

"Mr. Affleck states that the caterpil· lars frequently spin on the old plants."

VIEW ON THE MISSISSIPPI at Bend No. 100.-So numerous are the curves or bends of this river, and so difficult is it to distinguish them from each other by any natural features, in consequence of the uniformity of the surface, that they are marked on the maps by the numbers one, two, &c., and are commonly spoken of, by pilots and travellers, by that designation. The same may be said of the numerous islands,