THE COTTON WORM. 727 
ual, a concerted action in the application of the remedial agent in 
any given locality will be found necessary. 
I also recommend the introduction of the English sparrow into 
the Southern States, and additional legal protection to insectiv- 
orous birds. Since the war there has been too much ignorant 
use of the gun on the part of the negroes. All the birds should 
be protected as much as possible, for many species not usually 
considered insectivorous are yet found, during certain seasons of 
the year, to live on insects. 
I offer the following as the synonymy of the cotton worm in 
scientific literature : ; 
Aletia argillacea Hübner, Zutr. 3d Hund., S. 32, figs. 399-400 
Noctua xylina Say,* Sec. Ed. Vol. 1, p. 870 (1859). 
Anomis grandipuncta Guenée, Noct., Vol. 2, p. 400 (1852). 
Anomis bipunctina Guenée, Noct., Vol. 2, p. 401; id. Vol. 3, D: 
397 (1852). 
Anomis xylina Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., Vol. 3, p. 541 (1864). 
Anomis xylina Riley, 2nd Mo. Rep. p. 40, fig. 13 (1870). 
Anomis xylina Grote, Rural Carolinian, 3, p. 88 (1871). 
Anomis xylina Riley, 6th Mo. Rep. p. 17 (1874). 
Aletia argillacea Grote, List of the Noctuidæ of N. America, p. 24. 
* In a letter to C. W. Capers, dated Nov. 1st, 1827. I do not know whether this letter 
is elsewhere published, but this question will not affect the synonymy here proposed 
