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being grown experimentally in a near-by plat. All of the pods of the 
last-mentioned crop were empty, and in some cases larvee of this 
species were present in them, though the principal damage was doubt- 
less due to the boll worm or corn-ear worm (//eliothis armiger), which 
was also present. f 
Attack was noticed in the same locality also to crab-grass, rutabaga, 
hollyhock, and lambsquarter (Chenopodium album). 
In Bulletin 186 of the Michigan State Agricultural College Experi- 
ment Station, bearing date of December, 1900, and issued in 1901, 
page 30, Mr. R. H. Pettit makes mention of a similar small outbreak 
of this species at Chatham, Alger County, Mich., on corn, which he 
states was badly affected upon the station grounds, the insect entering 
the ear and burrowing into the kernels, both when they were in the 
milk and later, in the same manner as is done by the corn-ear worm. 
OCCURRENCE IN 1901. 
In 1901, Mr. Darden Edgar, Edgar, Dewitt County, Tex., sent 
larve, which were about three-fourths grown at the time of their 
receipt, May 4, which he had found attacking stalks of young corn in 
the usual manner described in previous accounts of this species. Some 
were found in the ‘* buds” and some in the stalks. The species had 
not been noticed in that locality in previous years by Mr. Edgar, who 
is a good observer, and although the larve did not occur in great 
abundance in that vicinity at the time of writing, it seems quite prob- 
able that this occurrence is a precursor of more severe attack and that 
a later generation may do serious damage in the Southern States, at 
least locally, and that the insect may even spread northward to regions 
where it was destructive in 1899. 
Mr. W. J. Young also wrote in regard to injuries in Louisiana, 
stating that the insect was noticed nearly every year, but had not been 
so destructive since 1882 or 1888. It was noticed in several different 
parts of a field where the larvee had literally eaten the leaves off of 40 
acres of sugar cane ranging from small shoots to cane 2 feet high. A 
piece of corn just tasselling was cleaned of every leaf, and in 20 acres of 
young corn they ate the entire heart or ** bud” out. They burrowed 
into a great many stalks of corn at the first and second joints from 
the ground, disappearing into the stalks. The ground was described 
as being at this time ‘*just full of them changing from the worm to 
the moth.” Some neighbors complained of the same trouble, and on 
some plantations where there was nothing growing but cotton the 
worms ate that. August 25 our correspondent sent specimens of the 
moth from Whiteville, La., with report that the larve had apparently 
disappeared entirely at this time. The cane, however, was perma- 
nently injured. About 60 per cent of the wrapper blades were dead 
