[68] KEPORT 4, UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
So far as can be ascertained from observation the Anomis xylina is believed to be a 
native of the country. During some entire years it is extremely rare to see a cater- 
pillar whether there be sun or rain, wet or dry weather. Some varieties, however, 
seem consequent upon the action of the suu, and others upon the action of the rain, 
appearing and disappearing as if by enchantment. 
There is an insect called the "inofo" by the planters because of its gray moldy 
appearance, but the accounts given are so vague and conflicting that I am unable to 
determine precisely to what variety it belongs. May it not be the ' ' Tortrix carpas ? " It 
is believed to have come from the southern provinces about the end of the first quar- 
ter of this century. It is almost always present among the cotton plants, especially 
in seasons when there is a scarcity of rain. 
There is no certain data as to the introduction of cotton into these provinces, but 
it is thought to be about the beginning of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, 
when the Marquis do Pombal tried to establish extensively in thes6 and other prov- 
inces the cultivation of all colonial plants. 
The prevailing direction of the wind is east in March, southeast in April, south in 
June and July. But during the last three years of drought they have been more from 
a northerly direction. 
So far, I have not been able to get any specimens of the moths or caterpillars. 
Regretting the paucity of these facts with which yqu are doubtless familiar, I have 
the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant. 
ANDREW CONE, 
United States Consul. 
C. V. Riley, Esq., 
Chief of the U. S. Entomological Commission, Wash ington, D. C. 
No. 28.] United States Consulate, 
Bogota, April 5, 1880. 
Sir: Referring to the communication from the State. Department of October 13, 
1879, I beg to inclose two original notes received from the Colombian Commissary of 
National Agriculture concerning the cultivation of the cotton plant, &c, for the use 
of the Entomological Commission at Washington. 
As I receive further reports I shall not fail to remit them. 
I have the honor to be, sir, your humble, obedient servant, 
BENDIX KOPPEL, 
United States Consul. 
The Hon. Secretary of State, 
Washington, D. C. 
[United States of Colombia. Office of the National Commissioner of Agriculture. Department of the 
, Treasury and the National Credit.] 
Bogota, March 30, 1880. 
Sir: From a report sent to me from Socorro by Mr. Albert S. Nieto, I extract the 
part relating to cotton, in order to furnish to you data which you have requested on 
behalf of the Government of the United States of America, for the information of 
the Entomological Commission of the Department of Agriculture. These data refer 
to the State of Santander. 
Cotton. — About 5,000 hectares of cotton are cultivated, which annually produce, on 
an average, 2,000,000 kilograms, the value of which, at 12$ cents per kilogram, is 
$250,000. Eight hundred and seventy-two thousand four hundred kilograms are sent 
to Boyaca and Cundinainarca. The value of these is $114,050. One million ouo hun- 
dred and twenty-seven thousand six hundred kilograms of this variety are spun in 
the State, producing 503,800 kilograms of thread, the value of which, at 00 cents per 
kilogram, is $338,280. This quantity of thread, with the addition of 100,000 kilo- 
grams of English thread, costing $242,500, which is at the rate of $1.10 per English 
pound, is used in manufacturing the following articles : 1,275,000 meters or 25,000 
pieces of 51 meters each of common and line-colored cotton shirting, which is sold at 
from $12 to $21 per piece, or, say, at an average of $16.50 per piece, making a total of 
$412,500, and for these were used 300,000 kilograms of thread of both kinds, amount- 
ing in value to $350,000; 833,333 meters of linen (lienzo) on which are used 100,000 
kilograms of domestic thread, which, being sold at 15 cents per meter, gives the sum 
of $125,000; 100,000 bed spreads, and in these have been used 250,000 kilograms of 
domestic, together with a small quantity of English thread. 
The remaining 13,800 kilograms of thread are used in making caps and heels for 
hempen shoes, and in making candle-wicks and other small articles. Twelve pieces 
of shirting — 250 of linen, and 60,000 bedspreads and hammocks, valued at $365,600 — 
are shipped to Venezuela, and to Boyaca" and other States of Colombia, and the remain- 
