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REPORT 4, UNITBO) STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



So far as can be ascertained from observation the Anomis xylina is believed to be a 

 native of the country. During some entire years it is extremely rare to see a cater 

 pillar whether there be sun or rain, wet or dry weather. Some varieties, however, 

 seem consequent upon the action of the sun, and others upon the action of the rain, 

 appearing and disappearing as if by enchantment. 



There is an insect called the * ' mofo " by the planters because of its gray moldy 

 appearance, but the accounts given are so vague and conflicting that I am unable to 

 determine precisely to what variety it belongs. May it not be the ' ' Tortrix carpas ? " It 

 is believed to have come from the southern provinces about the end of the first quar- 

 ter of this century. It is almost always present among the cotton plants, especially 

 in seasons when there is a scarcity of rain. 



There is no certain data as to the introduction of cotton into these provinces, but 

 it is thought to be about the beginning of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, 

 when the Marquis do Pombal tried to establish extensively in these and other prov- 

 inces the cultivation of all colonial plants. 



The prevailing direction of the wind is east in March, vsoutheast in April, south in 

 June and July. But during the last three years of drought they have been more from 

 a northerly direction. 



So far, I have not been able to get any specimens of the moths or caterpillars. 



Regretting the paucity of these facts with which you are doubtless familiar, I have 

 the honor to be, sir, vour obedient servant. 



ANDREW CONE, 

 , United States Consul. 



C. V. Riley, Esq., 



Chief of the U. S. Entomological Commission, Washington, D. C. 



No. 28.] United States Consulate, 



Bogota, April 5, 1880. 

 Sir: Referring to the communication from the State Department of October 13, 

 1879, I beg to inclose two original notes received from the Colombian Commissary of 

 National Agriculture concerning the cultivation of the cotton plant, &c., for the use 

 of the Entomological Commission at Washington. 

 As I receive further reports I shall not fail to remit them. 



I have the honor to be, sir, your humble, obedient servant, 



BENDIX KOPPEL, 



United States Consul. 

 The Hon. Secretary of State, 



Washington, D. C. 



[United States of Colombia. Oflice of the National Commissioner of Agriculture. Department of the 

 Treasury and the National Credit.] 



Bogota, 2Iarch 30, 1880. 



Sir : From a report sent to me from Socorro by Mr. Albert S. Xieto, I extract the 

 part relating to cotton, in order to furnish to you data which you have requested on 

 behalf of the Government of the United States of America, for the information of 

 the Entomological Commission of the Department of Agriculture. These data refer 

 to the State of Santander. 



Cotton. — About .5,000 hectares of cotton are cultivated, which annually produce, on 

 an average, 2,000,000 kilograms, the value of which, at 12^ cents per kilogram, is 

 ^250,000. Eight hundred and seventy-t«vo thousand four hundred kilograms are sent 

 to Boyaca and Cundinamarca. The value of these is $114,050. One million one hun- 

 dred and twenty-seven thousand six hundred kilograms of this variety are spun in 

 the State, producing 563,800 kilograms of thread, the value of which, at 60 cents per 

 kilogram, is $338,2«0. This quantity of thread, with the addition of 100,000 kilo- 

 grams of English thread, costing §242,500, which is at the rate of $1.10 per English 

 pound, is used in manufacturing the following articles : 1,275,000 meters or 25,000 

 pieces of 51 meters each of common and fine-colored cotton shirting, which is sold at 

 from $12 to $21 per piece, or, say, at an average of $16.50 per piece, making a total of 

 $412,500, and for these were used .300,000 kilograms of thread of both kinds, amount- 

 ing in value to $350,000; 838,333 meters of linen (lienzo) on which are used 100,000 

 kilograms of domestic thread, which, being sold at 15 cents per meter, gives the sum 

 of $125,000; 100,000 bed spreads, and in these have been used 250,000 kilograms of 

 domestic, together with a small quantity of English thread. 



The remaining 13,800 kilograms of thread are used in making caps and heels for 

 hempen shoes, and in making candle-wicks and other small articles. Twelve pieces 

 of shirting — 250 of linen, and 60,000 bedspreads and hammocks, valued at $365,600 — 

 are shi]3ped to Venezuela, and to Boyac^ and other States of Colombia, and the remain- 



