teing present;, in- small- num'bers,, ;J’Aeij(i liad "been, in summer fallow the 
previous yeari (June l); A few fields of whaafc in the vicinity of 
_ Pinley, Steele County , , oh served to have, heen pyac ti.ca 3 .ly ^destroyed 'hy 
larvae of L* aereipennis , ' . cn-x.. ^ . .i * • . ■ ;■ 
Idaho, J. E, Dpuglass (May 18 ): 1 Several- complaints received of severe 
damage to heans and heets in Twin Palls County, 
P. H. Shirck (May’ 21): On May 20 damage hy Ii» - calif ornicus Mana, 
to seed of recently planted corn was noted at Parma, Canyon County, 
Some stands of sugar heets are also being injured. Adults active since 
the middle of April, and some flight hy egg**hearing 'females, no ted as 
late as May I 9 , although indications are that practically all of the 
eggs have been laid, r 
Washington. M. C. Lane (May, 17): - On a farm at rWalla Walla 4 acres of onions 
entirely destroyed by 1, canus Lee, 
K. B, Gibson (May 17)l X. canus observed feeding on sugar beets 
and onions in experimental plots at Walla Walla, ^ ^ i. ^ 
California. M. W. Stone (May. 12): Melanotus longulus- Leq, fqund ;attacking 
• lima beans on nonirrigated hillside .plantings near Somis, YentUra 
County, About one out of every eight beans examined, was infested. Severe 
damage by L. californicus observed in a number of fields. Sifting of 
bean rows in aover~*crop plots, near Somis .showed an;.average of: two and 
one»*half per .foot, of row, or .one per bean planted, , 
R. E. Campbell (May 25 ): L, californicus caused .severe damage 
. in Orange County in a 20-acre field of tomatoes, at -least 20 percent 
of the plants being killed, and 50 percent of those remaining damaged. 
Several wireworras found feeding in the root and stem, of.most of the 
plant's, one plant having 27 in it, , In several fields of lima beans 
near Gardena, Los Angeles Cpunty, this species attacked the sprouting 
beans and killed over, 50 percent of the plants,. ..These, fields had 
been in alfalfa for 4 years* 
WHITE-PEINGED BEETLE ( Pantomorus leucoloma Boh,) 
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'■'General, L, J, Padget (April 30):^ First damage of the season noticed on 
about April, 26 , in. a garden near Lrewry, Ala,, where larvae::..w§r,e. , , . .. 
* observed feeding on corn: and at this time heavy larval damage- was 
reported on approximately 2 acres of corn at Glendale, Fla, No 
other reports received, :.r. . 
A BLISTER BEETLE ( Pomphopoea aenea Say) 
TeAnessee, G, M, Bentley (May 8 ): Specimens of blister beetles, which 
occur each spring, in- large quantities on dronwood,,, fqund.^i.,$QP:.feet ■■■ 
above sea level, in , the Great Smoky Movuatai ns National Park, in the 
Gatlinburg section* (Det, by H, S. Barber. ) . 
