THE TOBACCO BEETLE. ao 
two closely pressed cigars or beneath the band. Injured cigars 
do not draw well, burn unevenly, and dust is drawn into the 
Fic. 2.—Pressed cut smoking tobacco showing burrows of larve and exit holes of 
adults of the tobacco beetle (Lasioderma serricorne). 
mouth of the smoker. High-grade cigars, in which the more ex- 
pensive leaf tobacco is used as wrapper or filler, are far more sus- 
ceptible to injury than are cigars made from heavier, stronger, 
Fig. 3.—Chewing tobacco injured by the tobacco beetle (Lasioderma serricorne). 
and inferior grades. In cigarettes, also, injury is more apt to 
occur in those made from the sweeter, milder types of leaf, such 
as is used in the more expensive grades. Fine Turkish tobaccos 
