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study cotton insects under tbe auspices of the Agricultural Bureau. 
LTis report ou tbe caterpillar, which he treats under the name of Koc- 
tua xylina, and which was published in the Agricultural Report of the 
Patent Office for 1865, was the most accurate yet published, and 
formed the basis of most of the articles on this subject for the next 
fifteen years. It was, in fact, the first article written by a professed en- 
tomologist. The paper is accompanied by good figures of all states of 
tbe insect. It gives popular descriptions of the egg, larva, pupa and 
adult, and quotes from correspondents of the Bureau many interest- 
ing facts respecting the appearances from year to year. Parts of Dr. 
Capers' article are also quoted. The remedies given are lights, fires, 
and poisoned sweets. 
^Nothing original appeared now for a Dumber of years. Glover's ar- 
ticle Was copied many times. .1. A. Turner, however, in his Cotton Plant- 
er's Manual, New York, 1 >. >7. 1»\ way of variety, quotes Dr. Gorham quite 
fully. In 1864 Mr. A. B. Grote announced, in a paper entitled k ' Notes 
on certain species of North American Lepidoptera," in the Proceedings 
of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, Vol. Ill, the identity of 
Say's Xnctna .i j/li/ia and Guenee's A munis lii pun< t'ma . A//lina being the 
tirst published, the specific name bipunctina was dropped, while the new 
generic name Anomit was retained, forming the combination Amnnis 
.rylina by which the species was known for some ten years. 
With the close of the war and the beginning of the subsequent disas- 
trous chain of caterpillar years, communications upon the Cotton Worm 
in the Agricultural Reports and in the various agricultural periodicals 
became much more numerous than they had been before. Both the 
annual and the monthly reports of the Department contained much by 
Glover that was of value. So, too, the letters of G. W. Morse and J. M. 
Ferguson were interesting and well worthy of attention. Both these 
letters, published in the Monthly Reports for 1807, advised the hand 
picking of the early brood, on the ground that it appeared In limited 
localities, and in small numbers. In the same volume (>. II. Hempstead 
detailed very successful experiments in killing the moths with a home- 
made trap-iantern. 
In 1868 Walsh ami Riley commenced the publication of the American 
Entomologist, the first volume of which contained several interesting 
articles on the Cotton Worm. 
The Southern Cultivator for 18G9, '70 and '71 contained several papers 
of value upon this subject, most of them from the pen of the editor, 
Mr. William Jones; and the Ixural Carolinian, commencing publication 
in 1800, contained, in the next few years, many good articles, nona of 
them, however, of striking originality. First among these we may men- 
tion a lecture delivered before the Farmers' Club of Woodville, Miss., 
by Dr. D. L. Phares, in May, 1800, and published in the Carolinian for 
August, 1870. The article is accompanied by a lull-page lithograph, not 
very true to nature, of the worms at work, and contains a good resume 
