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BEAUS 
MEXICAU BEAN BEETIE ( Epi lading . var ive s t i s Muls,) 
Massachusetts, A, I. Bourne (June 20): Invasion of gardens nnd larger plant- 
ings in the Ar.iherst section hy overwintered hoetles noticed during first 
part of week of June 9* More nxmerous than usual, 
Connecticut, U, Turner (June 20): Abundant on garden beans and destructive 
in a few areas. 
Now York, N. Y, State Coll, *^gr. News Letter (June lO): Overwintered cadults 
observed since first of the nonth and are causing some injury in the lower 
Hudson Hiver Valley and on Long Island, No eggs observed. In \'\restern Now 
York the first beetles were observed on Juiie 5 an<i 6. 
Maryland, E. N. Cory (June 4): Present on beans at Contee, ' 
Gertrude Myers (June 25): Modora.toly aJbmidaut around Hockvillo, 
T. L, Bisscll (June 26); On snap bcajis at Nostover on June 12, 
Virginia. H, G, Walker and L, D. Anderson (June 24): More abundant than usual 
in Norfolk and Princess Anne Counties and on the Eastern Shore* of Virginia, 
South Ca.rolina,. J, G. Watts (Juno): Doing sonc danago to beans at Blackville. 
G^rgia, D, E, Earlinger (June l4): Caused severe injury to snap nnd lina 
beans in Clay and Tift Co\mties, 
T, L, Bissell (June 26): Q,uite injurious on beans at Tifton on* June 24, 
Heavy damage to beans reported on Juno' 25 from Biairsville, northeastern 
Georgia, 
Florida. A, H, Ma^dden (June I3): Reported as attacking all varieties of beans 
in Gadsden County. Fairly v/idesproad throughout the county. All stages 
present in considerable abundance, 
Alabama, M, Robinson (June I3): Modera.tely abundant at Auburn on May 15* 
Mississippi, C. Lyle (June 25): Reported as present in a, general heavy in- 
festation in the Meridian a.rea and an numerous' at State College and in 
Calhoun County, 
Louisiana, M, T. Young (May 23): Reported as covering an area near Bogaluso, 
10 miles square, 
Tennessee, G, M, Bentley (June 24); Medium infestation generally over the State 
on May 26, 
L, B, Scott (June 25): Normally abundant in north-central pant of State, 
Reported as dama,ging beans. 
