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_^„^ Cotton Worm. 



{Aleda argillacea, Hiibn.) 



1788. Destroyed two hundred tons of cotton in the Bahamas. 

 (Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr., Rep. on Rocky Mt. 

 Locust, U. S. Geo. Survey, 1877, p. 776.) 

 1793, 1800, 1804, 1825 and 1826, very destructive in this 

 country, and has since been destructive some- 

 where nearly every year. (Dr. A. S. Packard, 

 Jr., Rep. on Rocky Mt. Locust, U. S. Geo. 

 Survey, 1877, p. 776.) Average loss in cot- 

 ton States for fourteen years following the war, 



each year, * $15,000,000 



1873. Damage in cotton States, 25,000,000 



(■4th Rep U. S. Ent. Com., p. 3.) 

 Later average amiual loss from $25,000,000 to . t50,000,000 



Chinch Bug. 



{Blissus leucopterus, Say.) 



1850. Loss in Dlinois, $4,000,000 



(Computed by B. D. Walsh, State Ent. of 111.) 



1864. Loss in Illinois, 73,000,000 



(1st Ann. Rep. of Injurious and Other Insects 

 of N. Y. State, by J. A. Lintner, Albany, 

 1882, p. 7.) 

 1864. Total loss in Mississippi valley, .... 100,000,000 

 (Dr. Shimer's notes on chinch bug, as given 

 by A. S. Packard in Rep. on Rocky Mt. 

 Locust, 1877, p. 697.) 

 1871. Loss in Illinois to wheat, oats and barley, . . 10,000,000 



(Dr. LeBaron, 2d Rep. State Ent., 111.) 

 1871. Loss in Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Kan- 

 sas, 30,000,000 



(Dr. LeBaron, 2d Rep. State Ent., 111.) 



1874. Loss in Missouri, 19,000,000 



(Prof. C. V. Riley, 7th Rep. Insects of Missouri, 

 1875 p. 25.) 



1874. Loss in Western States, 60,000,000 



(Prof. C. V. Riley; I'ackard, Rocky Mt. 

 Locust, p. 698.) 



1887. Total loss in nine States, J 60,000,000 



(J. R. Dodge, Statistician U. S. Dept. Agr.) 



* 4th Rep. U. S. Ent. Com., p. 3. 



t llocky Mt. Locust, Packard, p.. 591. 



I Rep. of Ent., U. S. Dept. Agr., 1887, p. 56. 



