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Correction. The report on Autos erica cant an ea Arrow from Nassau County, N. Y. , 
in the Insect Pest Survey Bulletin dated July 1, 1939 » VP* 279 ) is in 
error. Specimens, later identified, proved to he S erica similis Lewis. 
BLISTER BEETLES (Meloidae) 
Georgia, T. L. Bissell (September 2l) : Epicauta pennsylvaniea Deg. -numerous on 
a wild composite with small yellow flowers at Experiment, central Georgia. 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (August 23) : g. pennsylvaniea and E; vittata E.- re- 
ported as making serious attacks, upon soybeans and potatoes in Madison 
and Weakley Counties. 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (September 20 ) : E. cinerea Eorst, reported at Selma on 
September 15. 
Kentucky. W. A. Price (September 25): Adults of E. pennsylvaniea found damaging 
Swiss chard early in September in 'gardens at Lexington. 
SUGAILBEET W I REWORM ( Limonius calif ornicus Mann.) 
Idaho. E. H. Shirck (September 8): Feeding on young lettuce in several fields 
near Wilder, southwestern Idaho. On September 7 » 8.2 percent of the plants 
in one field were wilted, indicating damage. 
A WEEVIL ( Calomycterus setarius Roelofs) 
New York. A. S. Travis (August 29): Taken at Millerton, northern Dutchess County, 
feeding mainly on geranium, hollyhock, and strawberry plants. First dis- 
covered last summer but few in number; now so numerous that several houses 
are swarming with them. (Det. by L. L. Buchanan.) 
WHITE-FRINGED BEETLE ( Pantpmorus leucoloma Boh.) 
General. B, M. Gaddis (September lU) j Two rather extensive areas of infestation 
recently found, one of 4,883 acres in the vicinity of Lake Pontchartrain, 
La., chiefly on uncultivated land; .another of over 4,000 acres in the 
Maybank-Lux area in Forrest and Covington Counties, Miss. Both P. leucoloma 
and P. peregrinus Buch., formerly referred to as Naupactus n. sp., infest 
this area. Of lesser extent were infestations recently found at Opp, 
Covington County, Ala,, on grounds of a school and a church, the adjoining 
cultivated area being apparently free of the beetle; at Blakely Island, 
across the river from Mobile, Ala., involving approximately 150‘ acres of 
waste land and dry docks; and the incipient infestations at Biloxi, Miss., 
and Crestview, Okaloosa County, and De Funiak Springs, Walton County, Fla. 
ARMYW ORM ( C irphis unipuncta Haw.) 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (September 5) * Report of infesta- 
tion on corn and specimens just sent in from Schenectady County. An 
earlier report, with specimens, came from Newburgh, Orange County, Both 
complaints stated that fields of young corn w ere being destroyed. (Det. 
by W. T. M. Forbes.) 
