SOUTHERN GREEN PLANT-BUG. 13 



Froggatt (12), in 1916, recorded it as injuring tomato, French bean, 

 and potato in' New South Wales, and stated that it had appeared in 

 the neighborhood of Sydney about five years previous to that date. 



It was mentioned by Watson (14), in 1917, as an enemy of various 

 crops in Florida, being treated especially as an enemy of truck and 

 garden crops. Hand collecting was referred to as a satisfactory 

 method of control to be practiced in the garden. 



UNPUBLISHED RECORDS. 



Among the records in the files of the Truck-Crop Insect Investi- 

 gations, Bureau of Entomology, there are several notes referring to 

 injury by the southern green plant-bug. Specimens were taken at 

 the time the notes were made and these have been seen by the writer. 



Mr. W. R. Beattie collected specimens at Mount Pleasant, S. C, 

 on September 23, 1907, from tomato and stated that "in numerous 

 instances 1 ' he "found as many as 5 to 20 working on a single fruit." 

 On October 24 of the same year Mr. H. M. Russell reported severe 

 injury to kumquats and Satsuma oranges in a grove of 1,000 trees 

 at St. Leo, Fla., the insects apparently having migrated to the grove 

 from neighboring cowpeas after these had died. The owner of the 

 grove estimated that because of the injury he had lost all of his Sat- 

 suma fruit and 250 boxes of kumquats. The inside of the injured 

 fruit was dry and pithy. 



In a note from Brownsville, Tex., dated May 25, 1909, Messrs. 

 D. K. McMillan and H. O. Marsh stated that these bugs were "very 

 abundant during the fall and early winter on eggplant, tomato, okra, 

 cabbage, and corn." 



On October 20, 1917, Mr. M. H. Carter, of Troy, Ala., sent adults 

 taken from cowpeas and wrote, "they have caused thousands of 

 dollars damage in south Alabama this year by destroying the field- 

 pea crop." 



Mr. H. K. Laramore wrote on November 15, 1917, sending speci- 

 mens collected at Jacksonville, Tex., on turnip and rutabaga, that 

 the species was very common, doing " a great deal of damage to cru« 

 cifers especially" and "I am told it is out of the question for them 

 to attempt to raise late cowpeas in Cherokee County." 



In the office records are included also other notes which, though 

 unaccompanied by specimens, probably refer to this species. Dur- 

 ing November, 1911, the American Sumatra Tobacco Co., of Quincy, 

 Fla., wrote regarding injury that "the loss attributable to them 

 can be counted into thousands of dollars. " In the case of tobacco it 

 was stated that "wherever they sting a leaf it wilts the same and the 

 leaf becomes absolutely worthless. " Injury to velvet beans was also 

 referred to. 



