278 REPORT UPON COTTON INSECTS. 



ANON. Destroying the Cotton Moth. Southern Cultivator, vol. viii, p, 

 132, 1850. 



Advocates "sugaring" for the moth with molasses and vinegar. 



THOMAS AFFLECK. The Cotton Moth Ophiusa f (Noctua) xylina. Af- 

 fleck's Southern Rural Almanac and Plantation and Garden Calendar 

 for 1851 (published at the office of the Picayune, New Orleans), pp, 

 49, 50. 



Quotes from a letter from Harris ; gives arguments for the hibernation of the- 

 moth; describes the egg accurately ; figures larva, chrysalis, and moth, and also 

 figures an ichneumonid parasite, in all probability Pimpla conquisitor. 



ANON ("McG"). Diseases of the Cotton Plant and their Remedy. De 

 Bow's Review, vol. xi, p. 7, 1857. 



T. W. HARRIS. A Treatise on some of the Insects of New England,, 

 which are injurious to Vegetation. Boston, 2d Edition, 1852, p. 457. 



A very brief account of Noctua xylina, Say. 



A. GUENEE. Species general des Lepidopteres ; les Noctu61ites, vol. ii r 

 p. 400, 1852 ; ibid., p. 401 j ibid., vol. iii, p. 397, 1852. 



In vol. ii, p. 400, the cotton-worm mo . is\~ _^,jed as Aiiomis grandipuncta, 

 on page 401 it is again described as Anomis bipunctina ; and again, in vol. iii, 

 p. 397, under the latter u:.rao (see Chapter I). 



B. C. L. WAILES. The Cotton Plant, its Origin and Varieties, and its 

 Enemies and Diseases. In Wailes' Agriculture and Geology of Mis- 

 sissipi, first report, 1854, pp. 146-148. 



A short sketch of the cotton-worm, which ho calls Depressaria goxsypiodes* 

 Advises, as a remedy, attracting the moth by fires. 



W. I. BURNETT, M. D. The Cotton Worm of the Southern States, 

 Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. iii, pp. 

 316-319. 



A short account of the insect, mostly from hearsay. Proposes the migration 

 theory. t 



ANON. The Cotton Worm, its Character, Habits, &c. De Bow's Re- 

 view, vol. xvii, pp. 451-459, 1854. 



J. H. ZIMMERMAN, M. D. The Cotton Worm, its Character, Habits, 

 &c. American Cotton Planter, August, 1855 (from De Bow's Review). 

 Gives an account of the metamorphoses of the cotton-worm and boll-worm. 

 Advises as remedies rotation of crops and sugaring for the moths. 



TOWNEND GLOVER. The Cotton Caterpillar (Noctua xylina}. Annual 

 Report of the Commissioner of Patents (Agriculture), 1855, pp. 71- 

 76. 



Gives popular descriptions of all stages of the insect, and an historical account 

 of its ravages. Details the remedies known. Figures all stages. 



M. D. LANDON. The Cotton Caterpillar (Noctua xylina). Report of the 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, 1864, p. 90. 



A short account of the natural history of the insect, with figures of hirva,. 

 chrysalis, and moth. Advocates the hibernation of the moth. 



