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have no value is at once evident. Clean culture in this direction 
is advisable on other grounds, and is certainly desirable as a means 
of reducing the numbers of this species. 
The partial synonymy furnished to the writer by Lord Walsingham 
is as follows: 
Solanella, Bdv. 
Gelechia terrella,' Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M., XXX, 1024 (1864). Bryotropha sola- 
nella Bdv., J. B. Soc. Cent. Hort. 1874; Rag. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1875, XXXV- 
XXXVII. Gelechia tabacella, Rag. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1879, CXLVI-CXLVII. 
Gelechia solanella, Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. N. 8. W., 112 (1879); N. Z. Jr. Sc., II, 590 
(1885). Lita tabacella, Rag. Buil. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1885, CXI-CXII. Gelechia sola- 
nella, Meyr. Tr. N. Z. Inst., XVIII, 166-7 (1886). Lita solanella (Olliff), Agr. 
Gaz. N.S. W., II, 158-9 (1891). 

CUTWORMS. 
Tobacco is no less subject to the attacks of cutworms than are many 
other crops. Grown in seed beds, as it is, and set out in newly plowed 
fields in the summer, the plants are naturally attacked by the hungry 
worms, which for some days at least had existed in the soil deprived 
of food. It is a common experience with tobacco growers, as well 
as other agricultur- 
ists, that ecutworms 
are always more 
numerous in fields 3 
left in fallow for a . 
period before being 
planted to certain ; 
crops. There is a 
greater variety of 
vegetation in such 
fields, and _ the 
moths which lay 
the eggs which pro- 
duce the cutworms 
are more apt to be 
attracted. Tobacco 
growers who have 
planted their fields 
to clover after the 
removal of the tobacco crop are also apt to find that there are plenty 
of cutworms present the following season. Those who plant winter 
grain, however, find that the following crop is less liable to damage 
by cutworms. This indicates the relative value of different crop- 
ping methods. It is a comparatively simple matter, however, to rid a 
field of cutworms before planting out the tobacco, and as a measure of 
safety this course may be followed to advantage. After the field is 
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Fia. 16.—Peridromia saucia; a, adult; b,c,d, full-grown larvex; e, /, 
eggs—all natural size except e,which is greatly enlarged(original). 

1 Oldest name but a homonym. 
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