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ment will be available for the destructioa of the caterpillar iu several 

 other of the food-plaats which it infests. 



Heliothis armiger Hiibn.* 



The Corn-worm. 



(Ord. Lepidoptera: Fam. Noctuid^.) 



HijBNER : "Ear. Scliinett., Noct. p. 370." 



QUENEE : Sp. Geu. Lep., vi. — Noct., ii, 1852, p. 181 (references and localities). 



Quote : in Proc. Eut. Soc. Pliila., 1863, i, p. 219 (as H. umbrosus) : in Bull. Buff. 

 Soc. N. S., i, 1873, p. 132 (distribution). 



Glover : in Kept. Commis. Agricul. for 18(>5, p. 43 (destruction by crows) ; Id. 

 for 1866, p. 30 (inj.) ; Id. for 1870, p. 84 (food-plants) ; Id. for 1871, p. 

 84 : MS. Notes Journ. — Cotton., 1878, plates 17, 18 (operations on cotton 

 and different stages); in Rept. Comrais. Pat. for 1854, pp. 64, 65, 69, 71, 

 plates 3, 4 ; Id. for 1855, pp. 283-385 (habits, descriptions, and remedies); 

 the same republished in Monthly Rept. Dept. Agricul. for July, 1866, 

 pp. 282-285, with figures. 



Wlsh.-Ril. : in Amer. Entomol., i, 1869, pp. 312-214, figs. 150, 151 (habits, his- 

 tory, food-plants, etc.); Id., ii, 1869, pp. 43-44, f. 39 (food-plants, in- 

 juries, remedies). 



Treat : in Vineland [N. J.] Weekly, of Aug. 21, 1869 (injuries to corn). 



KiLEY : in Amer. Entomol. , ii, 1870, p. 172 (tomato as a food-plant), p. 329 (asso- 

 ciated species) ; 3d Rept. Ins. Mo. , 1871, pp. 104-109, figs. 43, 43 (dis- 

 tribution, habits, description, remedies, etc.); 4th Rept. do., 1873, p. 

 139 (parasite) ; in Rept. Commis. Agricul. for 1881-1883, pp. 145-149, 

 pi. 1, and pi. 13, f. 1. 



LiNTNER : in 30th Rept. X. T. St. Mas. Nat. Hist., 1878, pp. 165, 166 ; Ento- 

 molog. Contrib., iv, 1878, pp. 53, 53 (carnivorous habits in Patagonia); 

 in Count. Gent., Ixvi, 1881, p. 759 (occurrence in N. Y., etc); in Ontario 

 County Times, Nov. 9, 1881 (history, habits, etc.). 



Thom.as : 7th Rept. Ins. 111., 1878, p. 4 (iu Illinois) ; in Count. Gent. , Ixvi, 1881, 

 p. 583 (description, habits, etc.). 



French : in Thorn. 7th Rept. Ins. 111. , 1878, pp. 102-106 (habits, description, 

 remedies); pp. 331-333 (description) ; in 11th Rept. do., 1883, pp. 83-104. 



CoMSTOCK : in Rept. on Cotton Ins., 1879, pp. 287-315 (habits, description, his- 

 tory, remedies, etc.). 



Claypole : in Amer. Entomol., iii, 1880, p. 278 (feeds on hard corn). 



CoQtriLLET : in Thorn. 10th Rept. Ins. 111., 1881, p. 150 (figures and larval de- 

 scription). 



M0FF.\T : in Ann. Rept. Ent. Soc. Ontario for 1881, (18S2), p. 30 (occurrence in 

 Ontario). 



Kelltcott : in Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci , iv, 1882, p. 61 (occurrence in Michigan). 



Johnson : in Rept. Commis. Agricul. for 1881 and 1882, 1883, pp. 150-153 (its 

 history in Miss., enemies and remedies). 



*Origiually named armigera but changed to arnviger for conformity to the gender of the 

 genus. 



