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blister BEETLES (Moloidac) • • 
Massachusetts, A, I, Bourne (June 23)1 Specimens of Pomphopooa so,yi ' Lee, 
oaid reports on the dojnage caused to lupines hy this heetle v;erc re- 
ceived from Berkshire County, ¥illiamstov;n in the northern po.rt aiid 
from Stocktridgo in the southern pcort. One report sto.ted that in less 
than 3 ^-ays the heotlcs had reduced an exceptionally good planting of 
English lupines to more stems, striT>ping "both the flov/ers and foliage 
and preferring the tip ends of the flower spikes, 
West Virginia, E. W, Craig (June IS): A numher of Chinese elms in Charles- 
ton v/orc rather seriously damcogod during the v;oek of Jimo Out- 
hrealc reported as occurring in a small field ef alfalfa in Ma,son County, 
Ohio, T, H, Parks (Juno 28 ): Epicauta. cinerea Eorst, very abundant generally 
in alfaJfa fields whore thej^ a.rc feeding on the plajits, 
Kentucky, W, A, Prico (June 24 ): Black blister beetles, Epicauta pcnnsyl- 
vanica (Peg,), vrero destructive to .alfalfa a.t Louisa, 
Ala.bama, J. M, Robinson (June 16): E, vitta,ta. was reported as active on 
vegetables at Domopolis aud on beans at Auburn and Selma, (June 21 ): 
Epicauta sp, reported a.s active on soybeans at Anniston and on toma.toes 
at Alpine, 
Mississippi, C, Lyle, ot al, (June 25): Worst outbroaJc of the southern ' 
striped blister beetle (E, lomniscata E,) ever recorded' occurred during 
the latter part of May and the first haJf of June, Specimens were re- 
ceived from many counties in the eantern half of the Sta.te, v;hero thej?’ 
were feeding on practicaJly everything, (June 25): Specimens of the 
ash-gTcay blister beetle ( Macrobasis unicolor Kby, ) were received on June 
19 from Chocta-w Comity, whore they were feeding on soybeans. Beetles 
proba.bly belonging to this species v;ere reported injuring soybeans in 
Jackson County on June IS, 
Nebrn.ska, H, D, Tate (Juno 20 ): E, p enn sy 1 vani c a and E, ma.cula.,ta (Sa.3^) 
wore found in alfalfa in Hitchcock County on May 21, Macrobasis mii- 
color Kby, were found in Buffalo Comity on May 21, and M, immaculate. 
Say v/cre found flying around lights in Redwillow County on May 20 , 
Missouri, A, C, Burrill (June 4 - 6 ): The gray blister beetle ( Epicauta 
cinerea Eorst,) made its first appoananco, and in 2 days a.to off 
leaflets from top loa.vos of several 8- to l^-foot trees of Albizzia. 
julibrissin , shade trees along Moreau Drive, Jefferson City; as high 
as 60 or more beetles per tree; kept flying from la.vms to gather on 
the trees on afternoon of June 4 and v/ore often ma.ting that evening 
and next day, 
Texas, R, K. Elctcher (May 19 )* pennsylvaiiica found on potatoes in 
Cans County, 
