Wisconsin, B, L, ClianlDors (Septonter 24): P, duodec inpunc tata and D, 
vittata F, are very a'biindant and doin^ serious daiiage to cucurlDits 
and various garden flowers in the southern half of tho State, 
Iowa, H, E, Jaques (Septenher): Light to modera,tc infestations of the 
striped cuctmoer beetle are present in scattered counties throughout 
the State, 
Nebraska, K, L, Tate (Septenher 18): L, vitta-ta was reported to ho attack- 
ing gourd vines in Douglas County on Auf^ust 18, 
3LISTEH BEETLES ( Epicauta spp.) 
Mississippi, C, Lyle, ot e.1, (Septenher 2^)l Specinens of tho nargined 
blister beetle (E, narginata E.) wore received from Koines, Oktibbeha, 
and Tallahatchie Counties, late in August and' ea.rly in Septenher, 
Eggplants, tonatoes, and sunflowers v/ere being injured, Hcports of 
injury to soybeans axd lo.tc tonatoes in tho Jackson district ha.vc 
also been received, Specinens of tho southern striped blister beetle 
(E, lonniscata E,) vrare received fron Lauderdale County, where beans 
wore being injured. Also reported a.s injuring tonato plants else- 
where in the Meridian district, 
A SCiLTlABAEID (^ europhorus caosus Creutz) 
¥ashinF?:ton, L, G, Snith (Septenher l6): Specinens received yrlth report 
that they wore infesting tonato and cabbage transplants in a hotbed, 
(Dot, bjr M, II, Hatch.) 
TOBACCO BUDWOHM ( lleliothis virescens subflexa Guon; ) 
Minnesota, H, E, Milliron (Septenher Ij)* Larvae feeding on fruit and 
foliage of cultivated ground cherry ( Physalis pubescons ) and to a 
lesser degree on P, ixocarpa in tho Saint Paul and Minneapolis 
district. Moderately abundant generally; very a.bundant In restrict- 
ed areas, destroying J,0 percent of the fruits of P, pubescons . 
CORK EAPWOPl'i ( lleliothis ai,rnigora. Iibn, ) 
Virginia, K, G, Walker and L, D, Anderson (Septenher 24): Eggs are nodor- 
a,tely abundant in a great nany bean fields in, tho Norfolk area 'and 
on tho Eastern Shore of Virgiiiia, Rather severely da.nagcd a planting 
of dahlian near a patch of sweefreorn in Norfolk, and have destroyed 
practically all of the flowering buds on sono of the plants, 
V 
Kansan, H, R, Bryson (Septenher 20): Caused consideradole injury to late 
beans and to tonatoes a.t Manhattan, 
Utah., G, E, Knov/lton (August 26): Infesting 20 T>orcent of the tonatoes 
oxanined in a hone garden at Wellsvillc, (Septenher I 7 ): Large per- 
centage of tonatoes ah Spanish Fork were reported as infested at 
