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In Lis report for 1870 Mr. Glover speaks especially of the damage to 
this crop the previous year in Maryland. The worm bored into both 
the ripe and unripe fruit of the tomato, reudering it wholly unfit for 
use. It was said that a single caterpillar would ruin a number of the 
fruit on one plant alone. 
Mr. Crane, of Mandarin, Fla., an extensive vegetable grower, lost, iu 
1878, one-third of his crop of tomatoes through this Heliothis. 
Prof. J. E. Willet, of Macon, Ga., in correspondence with the Depart- 
ment in September, 1879, related the interesting fact that in the vicin- 
ity of Macon, at least, the Boll Worm had developed the mischievous 
habit of boring into the tomato-stalks until they were nearly or quite 
severed, thus doing more damage than it could have done by confining 
itself to the fruit. The larvae have also been found feeding upon the 
leaves of tomato, at Washington, by Mr. Pergande, one of our assist- 
ants. 
The Boll Worm has also been found by J. Jenner Weir to feed upon 
the tomato plant in England, and we have already elsewhere commented 
upon the interest attaching to this fact, since the tomato is grown with 
such difficulty in England.* 
Tobacco, and other Solanace^s.— So far as we know there has 
been no record of injury to tobacco by the Boll Worm in this country; 
but Mr. Ch. Goureau, in his Insectes Xuisibles (second supplement, 1865, 
p. 132), mentions the fact that it devours the leaves of this plant where 
cultivated in Europe. 
Of other Solauaceous plants we may mention the red pepper (Capsi- 
cum annuum), the Jamestown or Jimpson weed (Datura stramonium), and 
the Ground-cherry (Physalis). The injury to peppers is mentioned by 
Professor French in the report of the Illinois State Entomologist for 
1877, p. 102, while the observation on Stramonium was made by Dr. 
Barnard and Mr. Schwarz, at Selma, Ala., in August, 1 880. On Physalis 
they were seen by Dr. A. Oeuiler, at Savannah, Ga., and we found them 
ruining the fruit of this plant in all pai ts of Kansas in 1877. 
LEG-onrsos^E. — The Boll Worm is very fond of boring into the pods 
of Leguminous plants. The pod of the common garden pea (Pisum sati- 
vum) is frequently destroyed by it.t 
Boll Worms were discovered feeding on the common string-bean (Pha- 
seolus vulgaris) in the vicinity of Kirkwood, Mo., by Miss Mary Murtfeldt. 
In October, 1879, specimens were received from D. Landreth & Sons, 
Philadelphia, which had damaged their Lima-beans to the extent of from 
3 to 5 per cent. Upon the field bean they were observed feeding by 
Mr. Howard, near Savannah, in 1881. With all these species of beans, 
and with the garden pea, the method of work is the same — the worm 
* American Entomologist, II, p. 172. 
tSee quotation from Mrs. Mary Treat, in the American Entomologist, Vol. II, p. 42. 
See also Glover's report of the Entomologist for 1870, p. 84; our third Missouri Report, 
p. 105: and report of Prof. William Trelease, in the Report on Cotton Insects, 1879. 
