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SWES'TPOTATO 
, . A LEPIDOPTEBgilif ( Bed.ellia rainor Busck) 
Louisiana. C, 0, Eddy (SeptenLer 28): Occurred, ou sweetpptaioes. in large 
nunlers in and around Baton Rouge this sunner. (Pet, hy C, Heinrich.) 
TORTOISE BEETLES' (Cassidinae) 
Mississippi. C, Lyle (Septenher 25)1 Chelymorpha cassidea reported on sweet- 
potatoes in the Grenad.a d.istrict, and. Metriona hivittata Say rather 
numerous on sweetpotato plants in the* Ja,ckso n area and. the> Orena.da d.is- 
, trict, 
STRAWBERRY 
SEED CORE BEETLE ( Agonoderus lecontei Chaud, ) 
Hebranka. H. D, Tate (August 24); Adult specimens sent in on August 24 from 
Cheyenne County, Reported as causing damage to strav/berries, 
COMOI'I RED SPIDER ( Tetranychus telarius L-, ) 
Ohio, E, W, Mendenhall (September ll): Found causing some damage on plants in 
stra,wberry pla,ntations in Lake County, 
BEETS 
BEET ;LEAFHOPPPR ( Eutettix tenollus Bak, ) 
Utah, G, F, Knowlton (September IS'); Severe, in many norttern sugar beet fields, 
although some fields a,pj>ear to be nearly up to average of other years, 
(September 25 ); Reported as causing severe damge in a number of sugar 
beet fields in the Garland-Riverside area, 
BEAiT i\PHID ( Aphis mimic is L,) 
Michigan', R. Hutson (September 23 ); Reported on a sugar beet from Alcron, 
TOBACCO 
TOBACCO PLEA BEETLE ( Epitrix parvula F.) 
Tennessee, L. B, Scott (September 19); Caused practicaJlj'- no damage to tobacco 
in north-central Tennessee, 
H0RE¥0Ri\'IS ( Protoparce spp.) . ' / 
Tennessee, L, B, Scott (September 19) J More abundant on tobacco late in August 
and in September than in June, July, and early in August, when they \irero 
very ^carce, but infestation was less than normal in north-central 
Tennessee, Apantolas congregatus Say unusually abundant on larvae, more 
than 50 percent of the larvae feeding on dark fire-cured tobacco showing 
signs of 'attack. Even higher percentage of parasitization on larvae feed- 
ing on bur ley tobacco. 
