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REMEDIES. 
What has just been said indicates the value of planting the earliest 
and the latest varieties of peas, and this will probably hold as a good 
remedy in many localities where the species occurs injuriously. Mr. 
W. T. Macoun has named Alaska, American Wonder, Gregory’s Sur- 
prise, Gradus, Nott’s Excelsior, and McLean’s Little Gem as among 
the best early varieties. The first three mature as early as June 17, 
before the appearance of the moths. Crops grown for seed are more 
difficult to protect. 
It has already been advised that clean culture would be found a 
valuable means of riddance of this insect, and if during the picking 
the plants are found to have been infested, as soon as the crop is off 
the remnants should be gathered and burned. 
Early fall plowing has also been recommended, but it does not seem ~ 
that this is necessary if the fields are burned over promptly. In Dr. 
Fletcher’s report for 1900 (1901, p. 214), the results of some experi- 
ments that were made in New Brunswick are given. They consist 
in the use of a spray of Paris green, 1 pound to 100 gallons, with 4 
pounds whale-oil soap added, in order that the mixture shall adhere 
to the waxy pod of the pea. The results were so promising as to show 
them of importance. Three sprayings are suggested; the first to be 
applied when the blossoms begin to fall, the second a week later, and 
the third ten days later than that. 
THE BEAN CUTWORM. 
(Ogdoconta cinereola Guen. ) 
A caterpillar which has been called the bean cutworm does injury 
to the foliage and pods of beans, at times stripping the vines bare. 
The species has long been known to collectors of Lepidoptera, but 
although widely distributed little has been published concerning its 
habits, although all of its stages except the egg have been described. 
It appears to be recorded as doing injury only in the States of Florida 
and Mississippi. 
DESCRIPTIVE. 
This species belongs to the family Noctuids, or owlet moths, which 
includes many cutworms, but it is not related to any of the true cut- 
worms, and has never been observed, so far as the writer knows, to 
be nocturnal or to cut tender plants. Hence it is probable that it is 
not a cutworm at all and the above name is amisnomer. It is more 
closely related to the cabbage looper and similar forms. 
The moth is a tolerably well-marked species, having a wing expanse 
of a little over an inch, the fore-wings being light brown and marked 
with a transverse paler band on the outer third. The reniform mark 
is distinct, as are other similar markings between that spot and the 
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