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food plant. The insect lives on corn until the ears are too hard for 
easy attack, and then transfers its attention to other plants. From 
this it results that it is usually only late in the season that the larvee 
are found upon tobacco. Here it works much as does the true bud 
worm, boring into the seed pods and into the flower stalks, as indi- 
eated in figs. 9, 10, and 1!, and also, more rarely, feeding upon the 
leaves. These remarks hold for Virginia. In Florida, however, 
according to Mr. Quaintance, the principal damage is done by these 
caterpillars during the early part of the year, when they do not have 
corn or cotton to feed upon. The eggs are deposited in the bud, and 
the larvee do very serious harm by feeding on the young and as yet 
unfolded leaves. A large worm may quite devour a bud. In color 
and markings the false bud worm is one of the most variable of cater- 
pillars. On tobacco the writer has found specimens of a uniform, 
light green color, without spot or stripe, and others the general effect 
of which was nearly black. Between these two extremes many vari- 
ations occur. This insect, like the true bud worm, passes the winter 
in the pupa condition under the surface of the ground. 
REMEDIES. 
The arsenical spray recommended for the flea-beetle and for the 
horn worms will aiso be efficacious, to a certain degree, against the 
bud worms, but in Florida Mr. Quaintance has found it desirable to 
make a specific treatment for these insects, which, when they are very 
numerous, may be advisable, although it necessitates considerable 
trouble. He recommends sprinkling poisoned corn meal in the bud. 
He adds a half teaspoonful of Paris green to a quart of finely-ground 
corn meal, which is thoroughly mixed by stirring. He then makes a 
sprinkler of a baking-powder can, in the bottom of which numerous 
holes have been punched, so that when it is shaken the poisoned corn 
meal may be peppered over the bud. He advises that the poison 
should be frequently applied, and after heavy rains. 
With these, as with other tobacco insects, there is much to be 
gained by clean culture, in keeping down the weeds on which the 
insects feed, and also by careful attention to corn and tomatoes which 
may be growing in the vicinity. Late fall plowing is efficacious against 
both species by breaking up the little earthen cells in which the pupz 
are found under the ground, thus exposing them to the action of 
frosts. 
THE NEW TOBACCO BUG, OR “SUCK-FLY.” 
(Dicyphus minimus Uhler. ) 
This insect is not only new asa tobacco enemy but is new to science, 
and was named and described by Professor Uhler in November, 1898. 
The specimens from which the description is drawn were received at 
the office of the Entomologist from Florida, but Professor Uhler had 

previously received specimens from Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi,and 
Alabama, with an account from the latter State that it feeds upon 
