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JOURNAL or AGEICULTURE OF V. II. 



be taken to spray tlie undersides of the leaves as it is essential to hit 

 the lace bngs in order to kill them. 



TOBACCO FtiEA-BEETLE {Epitrix pcirvula). 



This small brown beetle (Fig. 52) commonly occurs in large 

 numbers on the eggplant. 



In addition to the damage it causes by riddling the leaves with 

 its feeding punctures, it is thought to spread from one plant to 

 another a disease ^ that is very destructive to the eggplant. 



Fig. .')0. — Eggplant Ajibis (lihopalnsipJium persica'). Apliid cm lilossoni of 



eggplant. 



The minute oval eggs of this insect are laid in the soil around 

 the roots, and the small threadlike white larvse that hatch from them 

 feed on the roots. 



Control. — This beetle may be effectively controlled by dusting 

 the plants wilti a mixture of equal parts of arsenate of lead and 

 hydrated or air-slacked lime or dry. k^ached wood ashes. 



^ Wilt, due to Bacterium snlanacearum. 



