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POTATO AND TOMATO PSYLLID ( Paratrioza cocker oil i Sulc.) 
Nebraska. M. H. Swonk (June 20) : Report received from Buffalo County 
on June 12 as being numerous on potato and also present on tomato. 
BEANS 
MEXICAN BEAN BEETLE ( Epilachna v arivestis Muls.) 
Connecticut. N. Turner (June 19): Adults appeared in usual numbers 
late in May. Damage light in general, with a few heavy, local 
infestations . 
New York. M. D. Leonard (June 10): Reported as just beginning to 
appear in some bean fields around Roslyn and several other 
localities in that section of Nassau County. 
N. Y. State Coll. Apr. News Letter (June 12): Beetles laying 
eggs in Rockland and Suffolk Counties on June 9* In central New 
York the first beetle taken in western Steuben Gounty on beans on 
June 3 in a field where there were many beetles last year. Pirst 
beetle taken in Erie County on June 6. Evidences of adult feed- 
ing observed the rest of the week on snap and lima beans. No egg 
masses found. (June IS): Present in Schuyler County, western 
New York, for nearly 3 woks on early plantings of snap beans, 
and observed in Allegany County. First adults in Wayne County ob- 
served on June 15. (June 26): Observations made from June 19 to 
23 in the Hudson Talley indicate a heavy survival of beetles, and 
infestations on snap bean plantings reached point where control 
of adults necessary. They were laying eggs and about 10 percent 
of the eggs had hatched. Beetles being found generally on the 
early planted beans grown in up-State New York. Average of 25 
beetles on each 100 field-bean plants in sections of Steuben and 
Allegany Counties. A few eggs beginning to hatch on June 22. 
In Livingston County many fields yield beetles, and egg laying 
has been going on for about a week. 
North Carolina. W. A. Thomas (June 9): Particularly abundant during 
the spring and has defoliated most of the beans in home gardens, 
causing, in a few instances, serious damage to both soybeans and 
cowpeas at Chadbourn. 
Georgia. T. L. Bissell (June 13): Inquiries about this beetle have 
come in from Fulton and Pike Counties, central Georgia, and from 
Grady County, southwestern Georgia. Damage about normally severe 
in central Georgia. 
H. I. Borders (June l6): Snap beans in the southern Georgia 
area fairly heavily infested. Unusually early this season in a 
number of cases. 
