356 REPORT 4, UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
new land in Tarrant, Johnson, Ellis, Kaufman, Hunt, Eockwall, Cooke, 
Montague, Clay and Wise counties." — [Texas paper (title not kept), 1880, 
" The Boll Worm has already made its appearance in this part of the 
country, and reliable farmers say that their crops have already been 
damaged at least 75 per cent., and unless some favorable change takes 
place they will lose their entire crop." — [Statistical Beport, Kaufman 
County, Texas, 1880. 
u Twenty days ago the cotton crop of Ellis county promised an aver- 
age yield of a bale to the acre; at this time its evident average \ield will 
uot exceed one-third of a bale to the acre, the cause of the falling otf be- 
ing the Boll Worm. Some fields of cotton are comparatively little in- 
jured, while others are literally destroyed." — [Galveston News, September 
2, 1880. 
" Two hundred and fifty acres of cotton waist high and heavily 
limbed, was sold to-day for $250 cash. Cause, ravaged by the Boll 
W T orm."— [Galveston Neics, August 26, 1880. 
The following extracts are from the answers to the circular sent out 
in 1878: 
"The Boll Worm has, I doubt not, destroyed more cotton in Alabama 
than the Aletia argillacea." — [D. Lee, Lowndes County, Alabama. 
"I would mention the Boll Worm, which bores into the boll and de- 
stroys each lobe pierced, and many think the Boll Worm is more destruc- 
tive on the average than the caterpillar, for the reason that it attacks 
the cotton more or less every year. I have counted frequently on some 
stalks as many as 25 bolls destroyed by the Boll Worm. In 1847 there 
was no caterpillar; ^but the Boll Worm, from written memoranda fur- 
nished me by the Hon. A. C. Mitchell, of Glenville, Ala., very nearly 
destroyed the crops, being equally as destructive as the caterpillar the 
preceding year." — [H. Hawkins, Barbour County, Alabama. 
''There is a small worm which usually comes in advance of the regu- 
lar caterpillar, that bores into the forms before the bloom comes out, 
and it has been my opinion that the damage caused by these is as heavy 
as any caused by the caterpillar." — [H. C. Brown, Wilcox County, Ala- 
bama. 
" I believe the Boll Worm has done a great deal more damage in the • 
aggregate than the Cotton Worm." — [C. C. Howard, Autauga County, 
Alabama. 
"The Boll Worm does us more damage upon the whole than the Cot- 
ton Worm."— [A. J. Cheves, Macon County, Georgia. 
"The Boll Worm (Heliothis) has done more damage this year than 
the Noctua xylina. They appeared early in June and the third crop is 
still at work. The crop of this county is cut off at least one- third. A 
field of sixty acres planted by my brother-in-law, that with no casual- 
ties would have made forty-five bales, will barely make fifteen." — [W. 
Barnes, Cherokee County, Texas. 
