XOTES OF THE YEAE. 



The Colorado Potato Beetle in Georgia.— Iu the spring of the 

 present year we received the Colorado Potato Beetle (JDoryphora 10- 

 lineata) for the first time from the State of Georgia. Under date of May 

 18 we received from Mr. Woodward Barnwell, of Savannah, a letter ac- 

 companied by specimens of the larvae of this insect. There conld be 

 no question as to their identity. Both Mr. Barnwell and Dr. A. Oemler, 

 the president of the Chatham County Agricultural Society and author 

 of " Truck Farming at the South," wrote that they had never before 

 heard of this insect within the limits of the State. 



The evidence shows that the Doryphora did not reach Savannah by 

 gradual spread, as we have heard of it from no nearer point of late 

 years than eastern Tennessee,* and the chances are that it has been 

 directly imported from the ^"orth. Such an importation is a very easy 

 matter, as many of the truck farmers in the vicinity of Savannah buy 

 seed potatoes at the North from time to time. Mr. Barnwell himself 

 got last winter 110 barrels seed potatoes from Aroostook County, 

 Maine. Under these circumstances the beetle has probably often been 

 taken to Savannah before, and the very fact that it has never heretofore 

 developed there in sufficient numbers to be noticed affords the best in- 

 dication that it is not much to be feared in so warm a climate. Still we 

 advised Mr. Barnwell to be on the safe side, and to destroy it as thor- 

 oughly as possible by the use of Paris green. 



The Sugar cane Beetle injuring Corn (Plate I, fig. 1). — Six 

 years ago Ligyrus rugiceps Lee, injured the sugar-cane crop quite se- 

 verely in certain portions of Saint Mary's Parish, Louisiana. A note 

 upon this habit was given in the Annual Beport of the Department for 

 1879 (pp. 246-247), and the report for 1880 contained quite an extended 

 article on pages 236-240, the result of observations made by Mr. How- 

 ard in the spring of 188 L upon the infested plantations. The same ar- 

 ticle was embodied in Special Beport No. 35 of the Department, pub- 

 lished April 28,1881. 



The beetle seems to have done little damage to sugar-cane outside of 

 Saint Mary's Parish along the Bayou Teche, and since the great Hoods 

 in the spring of 1882, which were especially disastrous in that particu- 

 lar region, we have heard no further complaint of sugar-cane pests. 



* Specimens of the beetle and larva were received May 31, 1885, from Mrs. Mary 

 Frist, of Chattanooga, Tenn.. who wrote that they were destroying the crop of Irish 

 potatoes in her garden. 

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