INSECTS IXJI'KIOUS lO M ISCICLLANIiOUS CROl'S 25I 



decay of the pods is hastened and the larvae are thus deprived 

 of a food supply.^ 



Some of the potato and tomato pests considered in earlier 

 pages occasionally infest peppers, but do not as a rule do notice- 

 able injury. Among these are the tomato worms, bollworm, 

 white fly. and Colorado potato beetle. 



1 This species is treated under the name of Anthonomus (sneotvictus Champ, 

 in Bui. 54, Bur. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agr., pp. 43-48, and Bui. 63, pp. 5 5-58, 

 by C. M. Walker and F. C. Pratt respectively. 



