BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. 
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2119. Kiley. C. V.—Continued. 
Insects affecting corn or maize— Continued. 
Rhodobcenus 13-punctatus and Rhynchophorus simmermanni, 82— 
Description of the pupa, 82. 
The smaller corn-stalk borer, Pempelia lignosella . 82 
First appearance of the pest, 82—Geographical distribution in the 
United States, 83—Habits and natural history, 83—Work of the 
larva, 83—Transformation, 83—Habits of the moth, 83—Prevent 
ive measures, 84—Color variations of the moth, 84—Mouth parts 
of the moth, 84—Description of the larva, 84—Description of the 
pupa, 85. 
The boll-worm, alias corn-worm, Heliothis armigera . 85 
Injury to corn in 1881, 85—Food-plants, 85—Identity of the corn- 
worm and boll-worm, 85—Number of broods in the northern 
States, 86—Nature of damage done to com, 86—The worm also 
feeding on hard corn, 87—Corn-feeding broods in the southern 
States, 87—Damage done to tomatoes, 88—Food-plants of the 
families Solanacete and Leguminosse, 88—Cucurbitaceous and 
malvaceous food-plants, 89—Various other food-plants, 89—List 
of food-plants probably still incomplete, 89—Carnivorous habit 
of the worm, 89—Report upon Heliothis armigera, by Judge Law¬ 
rence Johnson, 90. 
The cotton-worm, Aletia xylina . 92 
Address by C. V. Riley before the Atlanta cotton convention, 93— 
* Past work on the practical side of the cotton-worm question, 93— 
Obstacles and difficulties of the investigation, 93—Natural his¬ 
tory, 94—The insect in its different stages, 94—Time of develop¬ 
ment and first appearance of the worms, 94—Poisons best applied 
from beneath, 95—Improvements in machinery for applying poi¬ 
sons, 95—Nozzles of various forms, 96—Machinery for poisoning 
from below, 96. 
Protection from injury in regions overflowed by the Mississippi. 97 
Poisons should be applied to the under surface of the leaves, 98— 
Paris green and London purple, 98—Sprinkling and sifting, 98- 
Device for mixing poisons and diluents, 98—Arsenic and arseniate 
of soda, 98—Early poisoning, 99. 
Poisoning devices—machine for spraying from below. 99 
The skid, 99—Device for thorough mixing and filling the barrel, 
' 100—Details of barrel, pump, and stirrer, 100—Inserting and ex¬ 
tricating the stirrer-bar, 100—Fork of the descending pipe, 100— 
The nozzles, 102. 
Damage in 1881.1. 102 
Loss of cotton by worms by States and counties, 102 — Loss of 
cotton by worms in 1881, tabulated, 104. 
Possible food-plants of the cotton-worm. 105 
No other food-plant than cotton yet found, 104—Eggs of Anomis 
erosa found on Urena lobata, 104—Eggs and young larvm of Anomis 
erosa distinguished from those of Aletia xylina, 105—Plants upon 
which eggs related to Aletia were found in the Department her¬ 
barium, 105—Localities for malvaceous plants, with possible 
food-plants of Aletia indicated, 105. 
The question of hibernation settled. 106 
Theories of hibernation, 106—Eggs deposited early in March, 106— 
The early brood of worms, 106—Where the moth hibernates, 
106—Value of fall and winter preventive work, 106. 
