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Potato-moth
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This insect, represented in Fig. 243, the ravages of which upon potatoes in Algiers and other Mediterranean countries have been well known for many years, and which has more recently caused much mischief in New Zealand and Australia, has quite recently found lodgment in California, having been apparently accidentally imported from Australia. In Algiers it is known in certain years to have destroyed fully two thirds of the potato-crop. It is a dangerous and annoying pest. The best remedy for it is said to be the total destruction of infected potatoes, and the protection of the stored tubers from access by the ovipositing females.