CONTENTS. 



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Introduction 5 



Insects affecting the plant 5 



Cutworms 5 



Splitworm 8 



Pod-borer 10 



Hornworm 13 



Flea-beetle 16 



Minor pests 17 



Insects affecting the stored product 18 



Cigarette beetle 18 



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Pig. 1. Caradrina reclusa, a cutworm common in tobacco fields 6 



2. Frontina archippivora, parasitic on cutworms 7 



3. Ichneumon hoebelei, parasitic on cutworms 8 



4. Phihorimsea operculella, the tobacco splitworm 9 



5. Limnerium blackburni, parasitic on splitworm 10 



6. Heliothis obsoleta, the tobacco pod-borer 10 



7. Phlegethontius quinquemaculata, the tobacco hornworm 14 



8. Epitrix parvula, the tobacco flea-beetle 16 



9. Lasioderma serricorne, the cigarette beetle 18 



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