358 REPORT 4, UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
In the American Cotton Planter for July, 1850, Mr. J. W. Boddie drew 
up a short scientific description of the species under the name of 
Phalaena zea 60 . 
In 1862, Mr. A. R. Grote (Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., Vol. I), having cap 
tured a male of H. armigera on Long Island, which differed considerably 
from the ordinary type, published a description of it under the name of 
H. umbrosus, and remarked concerning it : 
Approaches to the European H. armigera, which species has, however, a discalmark 
on the posterior wings, and is otherwise specifically distinct. It appears also from the 
description of H. exprimans Walker, C. B. M. Noct., p. 687, to have some resemblance 
with that species, hut the expressions "(alai anticae) orbiculari et reuiformi magniw 
ferrugineo marginatis/' and " (alas posticse) litura discali," do not apply to the species 
I have just described 6l . 
In the very next year, however. Mr. Grote withdrew the name alto- 
gether, having become satisfied of the identity of his type with the com 
mon European form. 
Heliotliis armigera has many popular names. In the cotton fields of 
the South it is universally known as the u Boll Worm " ; in the Southern 
corn-fields it is called early in the summer the " Bud Worm"; later, the 
" Tassel Worm", and later still, the a Ear Worm." In the corn fields 
of the West it is called the " Corn Worm." Tomato growers give it the 
name of the " Tomato Fruit-worm," or a Corn Worm," and according 
as it appears on peas, beans, or other vegetables, it receives still other 
titles. 
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 
It would be difficult to find a more widely spread species than Helio- 
this armigera. It has been found in every quarter of the globe, and, 
within certain latitudinal limits, its localities of occurrence form a com 
plete girdle around the world. The following list of localities has been 
gathered from different sources, principally from the British Museum 
Catalogue of Lepidoptera, and will doubtless be greatly added to as 
other localities are explored by eutomologists. 
United States. — All the States as far west as parallel 10G W., and as 
far north as 44 N. It is also found in California, as we learn from the 
Pacific Rural Press of September, 1879, and two specimens have been 
received at the Department from Oregon. 
Mexico. 
West Indies. — Jamaica, Barbadoes, Cuba (Havana). 
South America. — Venezuela, Brazil. 
Europe.-^ England, Isle of Wight, France, Spain (Gibraltar), Italy, 
Germany. 
Africa. — Azores, Congo River, Cape of Good Hope, South Afpiea 
(eoast and interior), Port Natal, Madagascar. 
Asia. — Bengal, North India, Mauritius, Ceylon. 
Malay Archipelago. — Java. • 
A ustralia. — New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland. 
Southern Pacific. — New Zealand, Navigator Isles. 
