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GENERALFEEDERS 
EUROPEAI?. EARWIG ( Forf icula aviricularia L.) 
California. A. E. Micheltacher (February 24); Careful search made hy 
the. reporter for the European earwig in an area in Berkeley that is 
sometimes rather heavily infested. Not a single individual en- 
countered up to the present. 
SUGAR-BEST WIREWORIvi ( Limonius californicus Mann.) 
California. M. W, Stone (February 9) • Sugar-beet wireworms found in a 
lima-bean field near Oxnard, Ventura County, attacking edible species 
^ of mushrooms that had just emerged through the soil after a heavy rain. 
As many as l 6 wireworms found on a single mushroom, feeding inside 
the stalk and on the underground portion. Two full barrels of 
infested mushrooms dug up in this 60 -acre field. 
WESTERN SPOTTED CUCUi'iBER BSEITE ( Piabrotica soror Lee.) 
California. A, S. Michelbacher (January 3)5 Found in abundance in the 
San Joaquin Valley on December 19, 1939. In one field what is be- 
lieved to have been a newly emerged adult was collected and, copula- 
ting beetles were observed throughout the area.’ (February 24): The 
number of beetles collected in the San Joaquin Valley on February 12 
per 100 sweeps ranged from 1 to 11 , The number collected in the 
different fields in the region adjacent to the San Francisco Bay on 
January 18 ranged from 4 to 81. 
FULLER'S ROSE BEETLE ( Pantomorus godmani Crotch) 
Georgia. T. L. Bissell (February 27): Minimuni temporaturos at Experiment, 
central Georgia, in January and Februax'y were i*-- - 15 . 6 ^ and 
~4.4 F. respectively. Weevils scarce in collections made thereafter, 
with the exception of P. godmani , 2 alive and 53 dead. HoY^ever, 
collections of this species in 2 previous winters showed the same 
proportion of dead. 
CUTWORl'/iS (Noctuidae) 
Florida.. J, R. Watson (February 21); Some damage, but less than is 
usual during warmer winters, 
California. J. Wilcox and L. B. Rood (January 22); Variegated cutworm 
(P^riUr^m margaritosa Hav/.) quite numerous in parts of a, 10-acrc 
potato field at Oceanside, southern California.' Serious enough to 
justify use of control measures. About 1 out of 10 acres of young 
lima. beans killed. 
