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Search of my records shows that the insect has 
not been recorded in the State. (L. M. Peairs, 
Dec. 4, 1930.) 
To the hest of our knowledge, investigations in 
potato fields have never shown the presence of 
the insect. (P. ¥. Craig, Sept. 23 , 194l.) 
I have often taken noths, which I assumed to he 
this species, at trap lights, hut have never had 
the identification checked. So far as observations 
or complaints are concerned, there is little or no 
injury from the insect to potatoes. I have no 
record of the insect on tobacco. On several 
occasions have thought that I had found the in- 
sect in some of the ornamental forms of tobacco 
at Morgantown, but never succeeded in rearing the 
moths. The injury resembled very closely the 
descriptions of the work in .ordinary tobacco. 
(L. M. Peairs, Sept. 30> 194l.) 
The tobacco splitworm was found in the State last 
summer. Wise. 2ul. 250'S 30, 1915* (-T. L. Russell, 
1915-) 
Dane County This county is napped as a place where the species 
is established on plant other than potato. U. S. 
Dept. Agr. nul. 427, 191 7 • (J.2. Graf.) 
S. D. Pr acker, in Pebruary 1917* wrote to the 
.bureau for specimens from California to compare 
with specimens from Wisconsin. 
WISCONSIN 
1914: 
1941 f 
Dane, Jefferson, Man^ fields, of. tobacco in Wisconsin show injury 
and Rock Count ies,193l! by the splitworm for the first time in many years; 
some fields in Dane, Jefferson, and Rock Counties 
seriously damaged. Insect Pest Survey 2ul. lit 
466, 1931. (p. L. Chambers.) 
1933: The tobacco splitworm is again showing up in spots 
in southern Wisconsin. Insect Pest Survey 2ul. 
13 : 209, 1933. (2. L. Chambers.) 
— r— —• 2. Ii. S earls says: "We studied the insect as the 
tobacco splitworm in 1931* Toroid 5*7 percent 
of the plants in nurseries infested on July 7» 
On July 10, 11.7 percent of the plants were 
rosetted as a result of splitworm injury. 11 T.C. 
Allen. notes: "To date we have no records or speci- 
mens of the potato tuber noth. " C. L. Pluke states 
