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Tennossee. G. M. Bentley (June 20): Striped, blister beetle ( Epicauta 
marginata E.) reported as destroying tomato plants at Memphis, Shelby 
County. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (June 24): Adults of Epicauta lemniscata E. received 
from Quitman County on June S; reported as feeding on alfalfa. 
Blister beetle injury to tomatoes reported from Oktibbeha County. 
Texas. R. K. Fletcher (June 22): E. lemniscata reported in Washington 
County on May 23 on "cow beets." 
North Dakota. J. A. Munro (June 22): Very abundant and injurious to 
caragana and other legumes. On June 17 at Mandar caragana, honey- 
locust, and lilac defoliated, by beetles. Also causing serious damage 
at Enderlin, Oakes, and Fargo. 
South Dakota. H. C. Severin (June 5) : A' number of different species 
doing much damage to caragana, garden plants, swoet clover, and 
alfalfa over practically the entire State. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (June 20) : Segmented blister beetle ( Macrobasis 
sogmentata Say) found damaging potato plants in Butler C minty on 
June 17. One-colored blister beetle (M. unicolor ) found attacking 
garden crops in Furnas County on May 2 &. 
D. B. Whelan (June 20): M. unicolor , E_. maculata Say, and E. 
ferruginoa Say, in the order named, numerous in alfalfa fields in 
eastern Nebraska during June. 
Arizona. W. A. Stevenson (June 17) J Very heavy population noted in two 
fields of alfalfa at Sahuarita, Pima County. 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (June 13 ): On June 3 ashy-gray blister beetles 
very abundant on and seriously damaging alfalfa at Emery, Emery 
County, southeast of central Utah. Also abundant on alfalfa at 
Nibley and Corinne, Box Elder County. Found damaging alfalfa and 
beets in some fields in Utah. County. 
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Georgia. P. M. Gilmer, P. A. Glick, and R. T. Harwell (Juno 3): Climbing 
cutworms very prevalent in all fields in Dooly, Berrien, Tift, 
Cook, Lowndes, and Echols Counties, causing serious loss of stand 
on cotton and peanuts, especially on fields planted last season in 
crops having rank growth. 
P. k. Gilmer (June 12): Damage in isolated ca.ses very severe, 
and, throughout the southern section, much more severe than usual. 
Some cotton fields reduced in stand fully 15 to 25 percent, and one 
Sea. Island field near Alapaha has lost fully 40 percent. Very 
serious damage on peanuts reported a number of times, and in one 
case so severe only about 12 plants were left standing on about 5 
acres of a 12-acre field. Practically every stub plant in the 
