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»*The Boll Worm has done more injury to the cotton plant thaji any 

 other insect this year. * * * It is said by some farmers that 50 per 

 cent, of the crop is lost on account of the Boll Worm." — [J. M. Glasco, 

 Upshur County, Texas. 



" The:e is one other insect that has destroyed more cotton in this lo- 

 cality in the last four years than all other insects combined. Et is known 

 here as the Boll Worm. * * * its numbers are increasing so rai)idly 

 and its destruction so great that it is becoming a terror to the cotton- 

 planter in this locality." — [J. W. Jaekson, Titus County, Texas. 



The following refer to the damage done to corn by this Heliothis : 



" The corn which escaped destruction by the drought was consumed 

 by these worms, so that one county which raised, in 1859, 430,000 bush- 

 els of corn, has not this year even 5,000 bushels of wormy corn — and 

 this is a sample of most of the counties in Kansas.'' — [Prairie Farmer^ 

 1861, p. 31. 



'^All The early corn in this county was infested to a remarkable de- 

 gree. * * * In the fields examined by myself, which were planted 

 at short intervals from the 15th of March to the 15th of April, and 

 were in roasting ear from the latter part of June, not more than three 

 per cent, of the ears were found without at least one worm." — [Judge 

 L. C. Johnson, Holly Springs, Miss. 



"In one field of late corn I found nearly every ear eaten by them, 

 there being from one to half a dozen worms in each ear. In many of 

 them, when my observations were made, while the corn was yet soft, 

 the process of molding and decay had progressed to su<*h an extent 

 that it was difficult to conceive that such corn could ever become any- 

 thing fit for man or beast to eat." — [G. H. French, Kormal, III. 



During the past three seasons (1881, 1882, and 1883) the damage to 

 corn has been especially marked all through the South and West. It 

 has been a common sight to meet with fields in Virginia and southward 

 in which almost every ear was pierced, while letters from Illinois and 

 other Western States complained bitterly of the damage done. 



NOMENCLATURE. 



The moth of the Boll Worm, according to the simplest classification 

 of the Heterocera, belongs to the same family — Noctuidse — as does the 

 Cotton Worm moth, and to the subfamily Heliothinae. According to 

 the classiticatio:i adopted by Guenee and followed in the catalogues of 

 The British j\luseum, however, Heliothis is placed in the family Helio- 

 thidse, tribe Genuinse, division Trifidae of the ^octuelitse, while Anomis 

 is very differently placed in the family Gonopterid^e, tribe YariegatiE, 

 division Quadrifidae of the Xoctuelitae. The genus Heliothis was founded 

 by Ochsenheimer in his Schmetterlinge von Europa in 1816, while the 

 species had been described by Hiibner in his Sammlmt^ europdischer 

 ScJwietterlinge^ 17*.)G. 



Two synonyms of this species have been published in this country. 



