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RED-HEADED ELEA BEETLE ( Systena hudsonias Forst.) 
Louisiana. P. K. Harrison (May 12): Observed as attacking cotton and 
doing moderate- to-severe damage in the Baton Rouge area. Smartweed, 
a wild host, was growing on turn rows arid also being attacked. 
COTTON LEAF WORM ( Alabama argillacea Hbn.) 
Texas. F. L. Thomas (May 12): First leaf worm of the season found in 
Cameron County on May 4, a three-fourths-grown larva being 
collected at Sen Benito. 
R. L. McGarr, et al. (May 20): First record for this season 
in Calhoun County made on May 17 . when two leaf worms were taken 
from cotton on a farm 7 miles west of Port Lavaca. One larva about 
full grown. 
PINK B0LLW0RM ( Pectinophora gossypiella Saund.) 
Texas. H. S. Cavitt (May 27): Total moth emergence somewhat lower than 
last week. Only 11 moths from winter-buried and irrigated treatments. 
A big drop in emergence from the cocoon series, 37 as compared with 
62 last week. All but 3 moths emerged from cocoons not disturbed 
following installation of the larvae. Only 3 moths emerged from 
thurberia bolls this week, as compared to 15 last week. Apparently 
emergence from these bolls is practically over. 
APHIDS (Aphiidae) 
South Carolina. C. F. Rainwater (May 20): Observations this spring in 
Florence County have brought out more forcibly than before the 
fact that Trif idaphis phaseoli Pass, is the most serious root aphid 
on cotton.- Usually a heavy mortality to seedling cotton wherever 
it occurs. One severely infested field in this vicinity has not 
more than 25 percent left of the plants that came up. 
Arizona.. .E. R, Tinkham (May 12): Aphis gossypii Glov. quite abundant 
on cotton at Continental, Pima County, but heavily parasitized. 
COTTON FLEA HOPPER ( Psallus seriatus Reut . ) 
Texas. F. L. Thomas (May 24): With the exception of a few fields in 
southern Texas, flea hoppers have not done much damage to early 
planted cotton. Thero has been a substantial increase in the 
numbers of young flea hoppers which practically doubled during 
the last week in Calhoun County. Hatching of overwintered eggs 
apparently noarly over in southern Texas, but in central Texas 
considerable numbers have hatched since tho rains. In north- 
ern and northwestern Texas tho hatch is running into fairly large 
numbers. 
