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POTATO LE.'J'HOPPPR ( Empoasca f a~b ae Harr.) 
California. R. S, ¥oglim (OctoTDcr)j Green leafhoppers ere moving in to 
central California, citrus groves in the sajne general areas and to 
the same extent as at this season in past years. Groves along the 
v/cstern edge of the Citrus Belt are the first to he affected. Dan''-- 
age has not been serious and has been confined to navel groves which 
are generally located near field crops, j)articula,rly cotton. 
PAPAYA 
BEST jiRI-rYVJORi''I ( Laaohygraa. exigua Hbn. ) 
Florida, A,.. E, Tissot (September 3.0)i Specimens received of raoth reared 
from larvae collected on July 23 at Orlaudo on papoaya leaves, (Bet, 
by J. F. G, Clarke.) 
DATE PALM 
RED DATE SCALE ( Phoenicdccccus ' m8,rla.tti Ckll, ) 
California, P, Simmons (October ll)! The red dale scale is plentiful 
on date paAm leaf ba.scs of the 1939 grov/th at Indio, Riverside Count;/, 
More recent leaf bases were not examined, 
TRUCE-CROP IE SECTS 
CUCTJMBSR BEETLES ( Piabrotica spp.) 
Florida,. J, D, Uatson (October 22): D. , baltea.ta. Leg, wa.s reported as in- 
flicting considerable damia.ge on a,ll truck crops a,t ’ Bradenton, 
Maine, J. H, Hawkins (October 20): Striped cucumber beetles (D, vittata F.) 
are feeding on inima.ture . squash loft in fields at Orono, and are very 
abimdant for this tine of year, 
Indiana, J. J. Davis (October' 22) : Spotted cucumber beetle; (D, duo dec im- 
puncta^ta, F.) vras damnaging' the flowers of chrysajithenun in greenhouses 
at La Fayette the middle of October, 
Missouri, L, Ha.senan (October 23): D, vittaAa, present in about usual 
numbers around fruit and late cucurbits in central Missouri, D, duo— 
de c inpun c t at a ha,s been more abundaut tha,n usual in central Missouri , 
feeding on various flowers, including dalilias and roses, and also 
feeding in injured late apples, 
Minnesota., A. A. Graaiovsky (October 2l): D, vittata is a.lways present 
in. numbers; D, duo dec impunc t a,ta is scauco and much less important. 
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