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TRUCK-CROP INSECTS 
VEGETABLE WEEVIL ( Llstroderes obliquua Klug) 
Louisiana. M,’ T, Young (May 23)2 Cold weather had little effect on the vegetahl* 
weevil, 
Arlcansas, D, Isely (June I9): Eoutid to occur in destructive numbers as far west 
as Garland County, 
BLISTER BEETLES ' (Meloidae) 
Georgia. D, E, Farlinger (June l4): Epicauta vittata E. causing light injury on 
peanuts, beets, and tomatoes in gardens at Eort Gaines, Clay County. 
T, L, Bissell (June 2,6): Blister beetles, probably E, vittata , injuring 
cotton at Cuthbert on May 31* Macrobasis unicolor Kby. numerous on potatoei 
at Blairsville on June 19* 
Kentuclcy. W. A. Price (June 2"j): ^lack blister beetles (E, pennsylvanica Beg. ) 
received from Campbellsville on June 25, v;ith statement tha,t they were ruin- 
ing potato vines, , 
Mississippi, C, Lyle and assistants (June 25) • Reported as numerous in the sout!' 
ea-stern part of the State; gra,y blister beetle (E, cinerea Eorst.) present 
in Monroe County, Specimens of E, lomniscata E. luoMvcc'. from Copiah, Jeffer- 
son, Lamar, Noxubee, Prentiss, end Webster Counties, and reported from 
Clarke^ County, Injured tormtoes, potatoes, soybeans, corn, and garden crop 
Considora,ble damage reported fron Monroe County and reported as abundrnt on 
cotton in Lawrence County. 
Texas, R. K, Eletcher (Jtine 21): E. lomniscata caused severe injury to tome.toes 
on June 6 in Van Zandt County. 
Minnesota. A. G. Rugglcs and assistants (June): M, unicolor very abundent on 
various legumes at Minnocapolis, 
North Dakota, S’. G. Butcher (June 25): Reported abundant from nearly a.ll sec- 
tions of the State, injuries being largely confined to legumes, gardens, anf 
ornamentais, A few canes of defoliation of potato fields noted, 
Arizona, H, G. Johnston (June 20): E. par dad is Lee, widely distributed and caus- 
ing serious dajna.ge to potatoes througiiout Yavapai and Coconino Counties, 
Insects migrate into small cultivated arean surrounded by extensive range- 
land. 
SEED-CORN MAGGOT ( Hylemya. cilicrura Rond.) 
Connecticut. N, Turner (June 20): Ruined". 1 a,cre of squash at Mount Carmel. 
A"bundant in many squash and liraa-bcan fields planted during rainy weather 
late in May, 
