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and pods of bean, sometimes stripping the vines bare. (Bui. 11. Div. 
Ent., U. S. Dept. of Agr., pp. 21, 22.) In 1890 a brief note by Mr. 
G. H. Kent, Roxie, Miss., was published in Insect Life (Vol. II, p. 
2S3), in which the statement was made that this larva was feeding 
on bean pods, doing considerable damage to the crop. 
UNPUBLISHED DIVISIONAL RECORDS. 
October 7, 1SS3, Mr. Albert Koebele, then of this office, found in 
Virginia, near the District of Columbia, several larvae feeding on 
cocklebur (Xcuithium strumarium). They were on the under sides of 
the leaves, and when at rest were stretched generally on the midrib 
and some of the larger ones on the stems of the leaves. November 7 
oblong cocoons were found in the earth, of which they were formed. 
The moths from this lot issued in confinement June 3 of the follow- 
ing year. September 3, 1885, Mr. Th. Pergande found larvae in the 
District of Columbia feeding on sunflower (Helianthus). Moths from 
this lot issued in confinement the following } r ear, May 10, 11, and 13. 
It does not seem probable that this species is limited to the bean 
among cultivated plants for food. On the contrary, it may now be, or 
may develop into, a somewhat general feeder, as it has been shown that 
it breeds normally upon composite plants, such as ragweed, cocklebur, 
and sunflower. 
No parasitic or predaceous enemies appear to have been recorded. 
REMEDIES. 
An arsenical spray, preferably- of arsenate of lead, would kill this 
insect when it occurs in numbers on beans, but care should be used 
when it attacks the pods, if these are soon to be used for food, to 
guard against possible poisoning of human beings. The destruction 
of the insect upon its wild food plants, such as pigweed and cocklebur, 
is also advisable, and it would be well to keep these plants down in 
regions where the bean cutworm has once been injurious. 
NOTES ON INSECTS AFFECTING BEANS AND PEAS. 
Under the above title the writer has brought together certain short 
notes on different species of insects that have either been treated in a 
popular or general manner in earlier publications, or that have not yet 
been made the subject of special study during recent } T ears. All that 
will be mentioned have come under observations through their occur- 
rence on beans, peas, cowpea, and related legumes, and have been 
actual]}' detected feeding upon one or more of these plants. Certain 
of the data that have been acquired concerning this class of insects have 
been made public in an article which took the form of condensed and 
popularized accounts of the more common and injurious forms. This 
