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 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



LETTER TO THE COMMISSIONER 



PART I. 



CHAPTER I. 



CLASSIFICATION AND NOMENCLATURE .. 



Popular names, 11 ; scientific classification ; characterization of the order 

 Lepidoptera, 11 ; families of moths, 11; characterization of the noctuidae, 

 12; tribes of noctuidae, 12; injurious insects of the tribe noctuae, 12; 

 generic and specific name of cotton-moth, 12 ; history of the synonymy of 

 the cotton-moth : Say's letter to Dr. Capers, 12 ; Say's description of 

 Noctua xylina, 12 ; Harris's letter to Doubleday, 13 ; Doubleday's reply, 

 13; Harris's letter to Ameck, 13; Mr. Wailes's determination, 13; Mr. 

 Grote's adoption of the genus Anomis, 14 ; Mr. Grote's adoption of Hub- 

 ner's name Alctia argillacea, 14; Hiibner's description, 14; scientific 

 synonymy of Aletia argillacea, 15. 



CHAPTER II. 

 PAST HISTORY OF THE COTTON-WORM 16 



Scarcity of material, 16 ; sources of information, 16 ; is the cotton-worm 

 indigenous ? 16 ; early history of cotton in the United States, 17 ; the iden- 

 , tity of the South American chenille of the last century with the cotton- 



worm of to-day, 18; Fabricius's Noctua oossypii, 18; Dr. Chisholm's descrip- 

 tion of the chenille of Guiana, 18 ; the cotton-worm in Guiana in the 

 early part of the 18th century, 19 ; the cotton-worm in the Bahamas in, 

 the 18th century, 19 ; the appointment of a committee by the general 

 ^j assembly of the Bahamas to investigate the injuries to cotton, and their 



\ report, 19 ; emigration of French planters from the West Indies to Georgia, 



^ in 1801, on account of the chenille, 19 ; first recorded appearance of the 



\ worm in the United States, 19 ; the worm in 1804, 20 ; from 1804 to 1825, 



20; 1825,20; 1826,21; 1829,21; 1830,21; 1831,21; 1832,21; 1833,21; 

 | 1834, 21 ; 1835, 21 ; 1836, 21 ; 1837, 21 ; 1838, 21 ; 1839, 21 ; 1840, 21 ; 1841, 22 ; 



J 1842,22; 1843, 22; 1844, 22; 1845, 23; 1846, 23; 1847,26; 1848,27; 1849, 



27; 1850,27; 1651,27; 1852,27; 1853,27; 1854,27; 1855,27; 1856,27; 1857, 

 27 ; 1858, 27 ; 1859, 27 ; 1860, 27 ; 1881, 27 ; 1862, 27 ; 1863, 28 ; 1864, 28 ; 1865, 

 28 ; 1866, 28 ; 1867, 29 ; 1863, 30 ; 1869, 31 ; 1870, 31 ; 1871, 32 ; 1872, 33 ; 1873, 

 34; 1874,40; 1875,42; 1876,43; 1877, 44; 1878,45; view of destructive 

 years, 23 ; review of the literature up to 1847, 26 ; first proposal of the 

 migration theory, 26 ; Dr. Gorham's paper, 26 ; prevalence of parasites, 

 26; history of the use of Paris green as a remedy, 38; the Department 

 of Agriculture circular of 1873, 39 ; Mr. Grote's paper on migration, 41 ; 

 Mr. Glover's views, 42 ; beginning of the cotton-insect investigation, 45 ; 

 table of appearances of the worm and the amount of damage done from 

 1804 to 1878, by counties, 47. 



STATISTICS OF LOSSES 63 



Difficulties in estimating, 63 ; years of losses, 63 ; general estimates of loss, 

 66; ratio of loss between early and late crops, 66; estimates of loss by 

 States, 67; Alabama, 67; Georgia, 68; Mississippi, 68; Louisiana, 68; 

 Texas, 69 ; Florida, 69 ; North Carolina, 69 ; South Carolina, 69 ; Tennes- 

 see, 69 ; Arkansas, 69 ; summary 69 ; table of average losses, 70, 



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