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tcrniinal buds. (June 12): Damage caused in fields near Robstown, 
Corpus Christi, Oden, and Gregory, in Nueces and San Fatricio 
Counties. Increasing in Calhoun County and beginning to appear 
in injurious numbers in fields near Coupland and Taylor, William- 
son County. Absent or in small numbers only in IS fields 
examined in Austin, Bastrop, Burleson, Colorado, and Waller 
Counties . 
K. F. Ewing and W. S. McGregor (June 3) : In 22 cotton 
fields in McLennan County 3»700 terminals showed an average of 
1.62 nymphs and O .58 adult, or a total of 2.2 per 100 buds. 
(June 24): In McLennan and Falls Counties an average of 5«1 
adults and 11.6 nymphs, or a total of 16.7 per 100 buds, found 
on 6,200 terminal buds examined in l6 fields. Average last 
week was 11. 9 per 100 buds. 
C. R. Parencia and S. E. Jones (June 3 ) • Only a few fields 
injured in Calhoun County, despite an average of 10.2 adults and 
27 nymphs per 100 buds on 5 ,200 terminal buds in 12 fields. In- 
festation found generally high on May 31 in the vicinity of Robs- 
town and Corpus Christi, coastal bend area. (June 24): Inspection 
of 4,400 terminal buds in 9 fields in Calhoun County showed an 
average of 6.5 adults and 4o.9 nymphs, per 100 buds, as compared 
with an average of 9*9 adults and 37*9 nymphs last week. 
COTTON STAINER ( Dysdorcus suturellus H. S.) 
Florida. L. C. Fife and C. S. Rude (Juno 3 )! Numerous in some old 
fields where stalks were not destroyed in Marion, Union, Alachua, 
Gilchrist, Putnam, and Lake Counties. 
THRIPS (Thysanoptcra) 
Texas. F. L. Thomas (June 20): Practically all cotton in the vicinity 
of grainfields in north-central and northern Texas injured to 
some extent, owing to the occurrence of thrips. Last week cotton 
in north-central Texas had begun to recover from damage. 
MISCELLANEOUS COTTON INSECTS 
Arizona. T. P. Cassidy (Juno 13 ): Between May 25 and June 7 at 
Buckeye, seedling cotton on 35 acres was destroyed by throe 
species. Tenebrionid beetles, Blapstinus spp. , and ground bugs, 
Pangaeus bilineatus Say, reported as numerous in cotton and 
causing serious damage, when a brood of beet armyivorms ( Laphygma 
exigua Hbn. ) hatched out and completely destroyed the stand on 
35 acres and damaged the stands in several other fields. 
