FIELD CRICKET (Grvllus assimilis F.) 
North Carolina. W. A. Thomas (February 20): Unusually abundant in the straw- 
berry fields in the vicinity of Chadbourn. Some injury already noticed, 
and present population indicates possibility of serious damage when fruit 
begins to form. 
STRAWBERRY PAMERA ( Pamera longulus Dali.) 
Florida. J. R. Watson (March l): Some complaints received of damage in the 
Plant City section. 
SPINACH 
SEED-CORN MAGGOT ( Hylemya cilicrura Rond.) 
South Carolina. W. J. Reid, Jr. (January 20): Approximately 25 percent of the 
plants of a 24-acre planting of spinach at Charleston infested. Speci- 
mens of affected plants indicated that buds were being rather severely 
injured. This habit of the seed-corn maggot in leaving its usual habitat 
in the soil to attack the buds of spinach has boen reported from Texas but 
had not previouslv been known by the writer to cause such injury in the 
Charleston area. 
SWEETPOTATO 
SWEETPOTATO WEEVIL ( Cylas f omicarius F. ) 
Mexico, K. L. Cockerham (February 23): Four larvae collected in Monterey, 
Nuevo Leon, Mexico, on December 31, 1938. Specimens tajeen from sweet- 
potatoes on the public market. 
BEETS 
BEET XEAFHOPPER ( Eutettix tenellus Bale.) 
Texas. S. E. Jones (February 24): A few females collected from table beets and 
spinach in the Winter Garden area at Winter Haven, Dimmit County, Curly- 
top present on both jolants . 
SUGAR-BEET ROOT APHID (Pomphi gus botae Doane) 
Nebraska. M. H, Swenk (February 24); Specimens taken from piles of sugar beets 
at the factory sent in from Hall County on December 19, 1938. 
COTTON INSECTS 
BOLL WEEVIL ( Anthonomus grand is Boh.) 
Florida, C. S. Rude and L. G« Fife (February 4); Many weevils observed in old 
cotton bolls on plants in the fields of sea island cotton in Florida. When 
bolls are broken open weevils are active and apparently not in condition 
to hibernate. Examinations of surface trash in and around cotton fields show 
