SALT-MARSH CATERPILLAR ( Estigmene acraea Drury) 
Arkansas, D, Isely (June 19) J Local damage to cotton caused in a number of 
counties along ;the southern "border of the State, 
Texas, C, R, Parencia, et al, (Juno 22): A generation of larvae nearly ready 
to pupate in Calhoun County, Infestation scattered over most of the county, 
and severe ragging o"bscrvcd in a fev/ fields. One. field had about 50 acres 
damaged, adjoining flax, from which tho larva.b migrated in large numbers. 
They v/orQ moving in a body. In one section of a row 3‘2 feet long, 4l0 
larvae’ were found, 
SEED-COEH 5IAGG0T ( Hylcmya cilicrura Rond,) 
Arizona, T, P, Cassidy (May 21): Only insect injury observed in cotton during 
April was an unusual case of injury to nev/ly germinated cotton seedlings 
on a farm 2 miles south of Mesa, In tv;o fields comprising 25 acres, the 
stand \7as so impaired as 'to necessitate replanting. In each case the 
cotton had been planted immediately after plov;ing out alfalfa. Occasional 
alfalfa sprouts scattered over the field showed similar underground damage, 
(Dot, bjA H, G, Johnston,) 
1 ' COTTON PLEA HOPPER ( Psallus soria,tus Rout,) 
Mississippi, C, A, Wilson, et a^, (June 22): Infestation in Oktibbeha and 
Lowndes Counties very low, inspection of 12,800 terminal buds in 42 fields 
yielding an average of L,0 adults and 0,09 nymph per 100 buds, as compared 
vrith an average of 1,64 'adults and 1,22 nymphs per 100 buds in examination 
of 3»60d terminal buds in 15, fields at this time last year. Highest^ 
number- of adults in my one field was 24 on 600 terminal buds. One field 
in western Oktibbeha County found to sho\/ evidence of damage to the small 
squares, 
Texas, P. L, Thomas (Juno 4): " More damage expected in southern Texas than in 
1939* although present '.indications arp that damage will be below average 
in that area. Numbers, more than doubled in a few fields since last week 
and now rpproaching abundance sufficient to cause damage, serious damage 
having already occurned in one fi.eld, as reported from Port Lavana, Slowly 
increasing in Whartoii County, Present in small numbers in cen'tral Texas, 
C, R, Parencia (June 15) s' Total of 2,400 terminal buds inspected in 6 
fields in Calhoun County, Average of 5»34 adults and 11, So nymphs found 
per 100 terminal buds, a.s compovred v/ith 4,44 adiilts and 12,62 nymphs last 
week. Young nymphs wore aprjcaring in fields examined lat’o in the week. 
In the variety tests on June 11 a tota-1 of 86,5 flea hoppers per 100 termi- 
nal buds was found cn l,600 i^lants on the check pla.ts and a tota.1 of 60,25 
per 100 terminal buds, on 1,600 plants in the treated plats, 
K, P, Ewing, ct al, (June 22): No nymphs omergod in hibernation -.cages 
in McLennan County during the week. In 31 fields 12,700 'terminal buds 
showed an average j»cr field of 4,29 axlults and 0,94 nymph per 100 terminal 
buds. Adult infos’iation a,lmost doubled that of la.st week, \irhich averaged 
