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Washington, R. 33. Sichnann (June 5)* Second-brood ..adults ver^ just beginning 
to appear on May 2S and 29 at b’alla Walla, Sunnysido,- Prosser, and Kenne- 
wick, No eggs had yet appeared. Cutting season had about ended, and 
damage* to asparagus stalks in most localities was negligible# 
ONIONS 
ONION MGGOT ( Hylenya antiq.ua Meig,) 
Montana, H, 3, Mills (June 19 )j Sone plantings badly infested at Nillings, 
Abundance average at Nozeinan, 
Utali, G, P. Knowlton (June ll): Damaging onions at Logan and Heber# (June 
13 )s Onions being dauagijcd at Ogden, Plain City, and Wollsyille# 
ONION THRIPS ( Thrips ta,baci Lind,^ 
Nev/.Yo.rk, N, Y, Sta,te Coll# Agr, News Letter (Jur^e lO): Increasing in numbers 
and some injury is becoming evident in v/cstorn Suffolk County, Sggs 
can now bo found on set onions in Orango County, eastern Nov/ York# 
Virginia# H, G, Walker and L. D. Anderson (June 24): Tv/o weeks la,tcr. than usuaJ 
in the Norfolk area. Considerable damage done to late spring ca.bbago and 
onions, Ra.ther a.bunda.nt on cantaloup, epxly in Juno but, seem t.o . be . dis- 
appearing now# , 
33sT?t. A. H. Rosonfeld (May 29): Severe outbrcalc on onions in Upper Egypt this 
spring. Particularly severe in great onion center of Shandawil, nean 
Sohag# ■ . , . ■ ’ ■ 
LETTUCE 
SIX-SPOTTED LE;J1I0P?ER ( Macrostoles divisus Uhl.) - ’ 
Maryland* E, E,. Smith (June 2l): Adults collected in lettuce field and yellows 
infection first noted at Seltsvillc^ on May 22, 1939 • 19^0 adults v/ero 
collected and first disea.sed plant noted on June 19 . In 1939 approximatelj 
50 percent of the auters planted on May 24-26 were infected wi,th yellows 
a month later, v/hercas in 194o only 1 plant was observed tp bo infected 
on June 20 in a field planted on May 24, 
S^fEE'TPOTATO 
SV/EETTOTATO LS.iE 3EETLE ( Typophorus viridicyanous Crotch) 
Mississippi, C, Lyle (June 25): -.Adults rocoived from Simpson County on June 11# 
TORTOISE 3EETLES (Cassidinao) 
Indiana., J. J, Da.vis (June 22): Gold tortoise beetle, ( Metriona bicolo-r E,) re- 
ported a.s doing considerable dana„go to sv/eetpota.toes in Wells County, in 
the northeastern part of the State, and as a minor post from several pla,ce» 
in central Indiana, 
