THE BOLL WOKM NOMENCLATURE. 
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•'The Boll Worm has done more injury to the cotton plant than any 
other insect this year. * * * It is said by some farmers that 50 per 
cent, of the crop is lost on account of the Boll Worm." — [J. M. tllasco, 
Upshur ( tounty, Texas. 
"There is one other insect that has destroyed more cotton in this lo- 
cality m the last four years than all other insects combined. It is known 
here as the Doll Worm. * * * Its numbers are increasing so rapidly 
and its destruction so great that it is becoming a terror to the cotton- 
planter in this locality." — [J. W. Jackson, Titus County. Texas. 
The following refer to the damage done to corn by this Ileliothis: 
"The corn which escaped destruction by the drought was consumed 
by these worms, so that one county which raised, in 1859, 436,000 bush- 
els of corn, has not this year even o,0(R) bushels of wormy corn — and 
this is a sample of most of the counties in Kansas." — [Prairie Farmer, 
1861, p. 31. 
"All the early corn in this county was infested to a remarkable de- 
gree. * * * In the fields examined by myself, which were planted 
at short intervals from the 15th of March to the 15th of April, and 
were in roasting ear from the hitter part of .Tune, not more than three 
percent, of the ears were found without at least one worm." — [Judge 
L. C. Johnson, Holly Springs, Miss. 
4k In one field of late corn I found nearly every ear eaten by them, 
there being from one to halt a dozen worms in each ear. In many of 
them, when my observations were made, while the corn was vet soft, 
the process Of molding and decay had progressed to such an extent 
that it was difficult to conceive that such corn could ever become any- 
thing n't for man or beast to eat." — [G. H. French, Normal, 111. 
During- the past three seasons (1881, 1882, and 1883) the damage to 
corn has been especially marked all through the South and West. It 
has been a common sight to meet with fields in Virginia and southward 
in which almost every ear was pierced, while letters from Illinois and 
other Western States complained bitterly of the damage done. 
NOMENCLATURE. 
The moth of the Boll Worm, according to the simplest classification 
of the Beterocera, belongs to the same family — Noctuidse — as does the 
Cotton Worm moth, and to the subfamily Ileliothime. According to 
the classification adopted by Gnenee and followed in the catalogues of 
the British Museum, however, Ileliothis is placed in the family Helio- 
thida 1 , tribe Gennina), division Trifldffi of the Noctuelitse, while Anomis 
is very differently placed in the family Gonopteridse, tribe Variegatae, 
division Quadrinda- of the Noel uelita-. The genus Heliothis was founded 
by Ochsenheimer in his Schmetterlinge von Europa in 1816, while the 
species had been described by Htibner iu his Sammlung europaischer 
Schmetterlinge, 1700. 
Two synonyms of this species have been published in this country. 
