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In bis report for 1870 Mr. Glover speaks especially of the damage to 

 this crop the previous year in Maryland. The worm bored into both 

 the ripe and unripe fruit of the tomato, rendering it wholly unfit for 

 use. It was said that a single caterpillar would ruin a number of the 

 fruit on one plant alone. 



Mr. Crane, of Mandarin, Fla., an extensive vegetable grower, lost, in 

 1878, one-third of his crop of tomatoes through this Heliothis. 



Prof. J. E. Willet, of Macon, Ga., in correspondence with the Depart- 

 ment in September, 1879, related the iuteresting fact that in the vicin- 

 ity of Macon, at least, the Boll Worm had developed the mischievous 

 habit of boring into the tomato-stalks until they were nearly or quite 

 severed, thus doing more damage than it could have done by confining 

 itself to the fruit. The larvae have also been found feeding upon the 

 leaves of tomato, at Washington, by Mr. Pergande, one of our assist- 

 ants. 



The Boll Worm has also been found by J. Jenuer Weir to feed npoii 

 the tomato plant in England, and we have already elsewhere commented 

 upon the interest attaching to this fact, since the tomato is grown with 

 such difficulty in England.* 



Tobacco, and other Solanace^.— So far as we know there has 

 been no record of injury to tobacco by the Boll Worm in this country; 

 but Mr. Ch. Goureau, in his Insectes XuisiUes (second supplement, 1865, 

 p. 132), mentions the fact that it devours the leaves of this plant where 

 cultivated in Europe. 



Of other Solauaceous plants we may mention the red pepper {Capsi- 

 cum annuum)^ the Jamestown or Jimpson weed (Datiira stramonium), and 

 the Ground-cherry {Phy sails). The injury to peppers is mentioned by 

 Professor French in the report of the Illinois State Entomologist for 

 1877, p. 102, while the observation on Stramonium was made by Dr. 

 Barnard and Mr. Schwarz, at Selma, Ala., in August, J 880. On Physalis 

 they were seen by Dr. A. Oemler, at Savannah, Ga., and we found them 

 ruining the fruit of this plant.in all parts of Kansas in 1877. 



LEGrUivnNOS^. — The Boll Worm is very fond of boring into the pods 

 of Leguminous plants. The pod oi' the common garden pea {Pisum sati- 

 vum) is frequently destroyed by it.t 



Boll Worms were discovered feeding on the common string-bean {Pha- 

 seolus vulgaris) in the vicinity of Kirkwood, Mo., by Miss Mary Murtfeldt. 

 In October, 1879, specimens were received from D. Landreth & Sons, 

 Philadelphia, which had damaged their Lima-beans to the extent of from 

 3 to 5 per cent. Upon the field bean they were observed feeding by 

 Mr. Howard, near Savannah, in 1881. With all these species of beans, 

 and with the garden pea, the method of woik is the same — the worm 



*Ameincan Entomologist, II, p. 172. 



tSee quotation from Mrs. Mary Treat, in the American Entomologist, Vol. II, p. 42. 

 See also Glovers report of the Entoinolofrist for 1870, p. 84 ; onr third Missouri Report, 

 p. 105; and report of Prof. William Trelease, iu the Eeport on Cotton Insects, 1879. 



