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In the laboratory at Paris bollworms were fed on the following- 
plants, which were eaten with (Evident relish: 
Corn. 
Gourd. 
Rose. 
Bindweed. 
Cotton. 
Cucumber. 
Amarantus spp. 
Stachys agraria. 
Tomato. 
Nasturtium. 
Tobacco. 
Physalis angulata. 
Apple. 
Castor bean. 
Catalpa. 
, Solidago sp. 
Peach. 
Millet. 
Blackberries. 
Canna indica. 
Irish potato. 
Alfalfa. 
Bermuda grass. 
Datura stramQnium. 
Sweet potato. 
Taraxacum vulgare. 
Rudbeckia sp. 
Chenopodium sp. 
Cowpeas. 
Helianthus tuberosum 
. Poke weed. 
Sida sp. 
Garden peas. 
Green peppers. 
Solanum spp. 
Squash. 
Okra. 
Erigeron spp. 
The food plants of the bollworm, as at present known, are thus seen 
to number 70, distributed in 21 natural orders. If to these be added 
the plants on which the larvae have been fed in confinement, the list 
becomes somewhat increased. 
STATUS OF BOLLWORM IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
Throughout its extended range the bollworm is nowhere so well 
known as in the southern United States in connection with its injuries 
to the cotton crop. Its injuries in foreign countries are, however, in 
some sections not inconsiderable, and attention may appropriately be 
called to its status as a pest in other countries than our own. 
Throughout the countries of Europe its injuries are, on the whole, 
comparatively insignificant. In Great Britain and Ireland, according 
to Mr. E. A. Shipley (in lit.), well-authenticated British specimens of 
the moth are so rare as to sell at from |2.50 to 14 each. 
Dr. Paul Marchal writes that bollworms were observed by him 
injuring tomatoes in middle France in 1900 and 1901, and also injuring 
corn in north Spain. In Hungary, according to Dr. Josef Jablo- 
nowski, moths are ver}^ rare and larvae are unknown. A related 
species, HeliotMs dipsaceus Linn., is at times troublesome, feeding on 
corn, flax, peas, potatoes, and other crops. 
Dr. Antonio Berlese, of the Royal High School, Portici, Italy, 
advises (in lit.) that the bollworm in Italy attacks principally tobacco 
and Indian corn. Its injuries are not ordinarily important, and gath- 
ering the larv8e bj^ hand and destroying them is the method followed 
in its control. Three generations annually are considered probable. 
Concerning the status of the bollworm in Cape Colon}^, South Africa, 
Mr. Charles P. Lounsbury, Government entomologist, wi'ites that it 
is one of the most common of the lepidopterous insects of the Cape, 
its larva being well known to farmers, fruit growers, and gardeners 
alike. In feeding habits the larva is almost omnivorous, attacking 
pear, prune, plum, peach, lucern (alfalfa), cabbage, tomatoes, corn, 
