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Mississippi. C. Lyle, et al. (April 24): Reports of injury by plant iice 
to cabbage received from Grenada and Jackson districts and from Monroe 
County. Specimens of Brevicoryne brassicao (L«) were taken from cabbage 
in Oktibbeha County early in April. 
E. W. Dunnain, et al. (April 4): Cabbage infested with aphids at 
Stoneville, Washington County. • > • 
HARLEQUIN BUG ( Murgantia histrionica Hahn) 
Virginia. L. A. Hetrick (April 14): Adults abundant at West Point, feeding 
on stems and foliage of clumps of yellow alyssum. No eggs could e found, 
and no nymphs were seen. Evidently .the adults had hibernated in the clumps 
of the plant. 
Alabama. J. M, Robinson (April 21): Abundant at Auburn. 
Kentucky. YI. A.' Price (April 25): Adults received on April 17 from Leitch- 
field. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle, et al. (April 24): Specimens received from Oktibbeha 
County, and rep'orts of damage from the Grenada, Jackson, and Meridian 
districts, and from Holmes County. 
Texas. J. N. Roney (April 20): Turnips and cabbage damaged in Brazos County. 
* CABBAGE MAGGOT ( Hylemya brassicae Bouche) 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (April 20): Flies observed on 
Long Island on April 15.» (April 27): Flies numerous on Long Island and 
on Staten Island by April 25; no oviposition observed. 
Oregon. D. C. Mote, et al. (April 21): Eggs around stems of newly trans- 
planted cabbage and cauliflower in Corvallis, Willamette Valley. 
DIAMONDBACK MOTH ( Piute 11a maculipennis Curt.) 
Texas. C. 0. Gingrass (April 3): Damage severe in some fields in Hidalgo 
County. 
TURNIP 
APHIDS (Aphiidae) 
Georgia. T. L. Bissell (April 23): The turnip aphid ( Rhopalosiphum pseudo- 
brassicae Davis) was injuring small turnips at Experiment on April 14, 
when cold weather had held back this crop . 
Mississippi. C. Lyle, et al. (April 24): Complaints of injury to turnips 
by plant lice received from the Grenada, Gulfport, and Meridian districts, 
and from Holmes County. 
Texas. J. N. Roney (April 20) : Severe injury by the turnip aphid to tur- 
nips and cabbage in Brazos County in April. 
ASPARAGUS 
ASPARAGUS BEETLE ( Crioceris asparagi L.) 
Michigan. E. I. McDaniel (April 29): New shoots attacked as they appear 
above ground. First cutting of asparagus today. Beetles very abundant 
in some' fields. 
