12 BULLETIN 843, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



N. Mex.. reported injury, July 24, to beans, furnishing samples of 

 adults. August 11, M. A. Bishop reported injury at Tularosa, 

 N. Mex. He wrote that for two years previously a small yellow bug 

 covered with hairs had been eating the leaves of beans leaving noth- 

 ing but a bare skeleton. Complaint was also made by Mrs. Katherine 

 Courtney of injury to lima beans at Littleton, Colo. 



May 28, 1910, Elias Clark, Alcalde, N. Mex., stated that this insect 

 was very destructive to beans in that vicinity. January 11, 1909, 

 John Block, Santa Cruz, N. Mex., described the larvae, adults, and 

 the work of this species on beans, requesting a remedy. July 6, 

 1915, Mrs. Ethel Mercer wrote from Denver, Colo., of little yellow 

 larvae which literally devoured the bean crop. They began on the 

 leaves, and after these were gone they attacked the pods, as many as 

 15 being noted on a pod. Before the beans began to bloom the 

 same insect ate the leaves " full of holes." 



August 28, 1912, this species, according to Dr. A. W. Morrill, 

 did considerable damage to beans at Prescott. Ariz. At that time it 

 was abundant mostly in the pupal and adult forms. Between July 

 and August of the following year, 1913, much damage was noted 

 to pole beans at Cottonwood, Ariz. The insects practically ruined 

 an entire field of about one-half acre. At that time full-grown larvae 

 and pupae and a few egg batches and young larvae were found. The 

 hibernating adults had disappeared, only newly emerged, pale yellow 

 adults being in evidence. 



October 13, 1916. W. E. Marble wrote in regard to the growing of 

 Mexican beans in the Arroyo Animas Valley of New Mexico, stat- 

 ing that the crop was greatly damaged by the larvae of this lady- 

 bird which he described as of about the size of a navy bean, yellow 

 in color, eating the leaves, and leaving only a network. This, he 

 wrote, stops the growth of the plants and ultimately kills them. 

 October 16, A. Warner, Sandy, Ariz., sent specimens, stating that 

 the insect destroyed a crop in about 14 days, and that Paris green 

 was ineffective. 



Complaints were made during the year 1917 of injury at Wheat- 

 ridge, Brewster, Colorado Springs, Rocky Ford, Pueblo, Denver, 

 and Boulder, Colo.; Santa Fe and East Las Vegas, N. Mex.; Flag- 

 staff, Ariz. ; and Alpine, Tex. The last report was from T. F. 

 Blaine, dated October 31, and was accompanied by specimens. D. E. 

 Merrill also wrote of this species October 5, 1917, and of its oc- 

 currence in the vicinity of El Paso, Fabens, and Clint, in the El 

 Paso Valley of Texas. 



F. M. Wadley, scientific assistant, stated June 21, 1918, that the bean 

 ladybird occurred at Wichita, Kans., but was more abundant in the 

 western part of the State. August 6, Thomas H. Hudson complained 

 of injury by this species to beans at Colorado Springs, Colo. 



