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POTATO IfTAFHOPP-ll ( llhpoasca fafeae Harr. ) 
Virginia ]?. W. Poos (August 19): ISctrenely abundant at ]3nporia and 
Suffolk, considering recent heavy rains. Causing much yellowing, 
curling, and dwarfing of f oliage-^ diseaselike injury?-. This 
insect is attacking peanut. Same conditions found at .""Infield, 
Weldon, Rocky Mount, and Williamston, N. C. 
North Carolina, Z„ F. Metcalf (August): Ptapoasca fabae is very abundant in 
soybeans and peanuts. 
CQTT01T 
BSM THRIPS ( Heliothrips fasciatus Perg. ) 
California S. lockwood (July 27): On the 15th of July there was discovered 
an incipient infestation of the bean tlirips on about 20,000 
acres of cotton in the Dos Palos — Los Banos area of the San 
Joaquin Valley in California. At that time adult thrips 
averaged over this area about one thrips to the plant and at 
this time the larvae were found numerous only in rather small 
areas of this region. Ho commercial damage had occurred, 
though there is promise of considerable to come. 
T OBACCO 
TOBACCO HOROTOBMS ( Protoparce spp. ) 
Vermont H. L. Bailey (August 24): Tobacco hornworms are moderately 
abundant in the tobacco fields of the sotitheastern part of the 
State. 
Wisconsin 3. L. Chambers (August 24): Tobacco fields throughout 
southeastern Wisconsin were seriously injured by tobacco worms 
during the past month. This is the most serious outbreak of 
this pest for many years. 
Mississippi J. Milton (August 22): On July 27 the tobacco worm was doing 
heavy damage to a. small patch of tobacco at Belmont. 
POTATO TUB7JR WOSM ( Phthorimaea operculella Zell.) 
Wisconsin S. L. Chambers (Aagast 24): Many fields of tobacco show 
injury from the splitworm ( Phthorimaea operculella ) in 
Wisconsin for the first time in many years, and some seriously 
damaged fields have been observed in Bane, Pock, and Jefferson 
Counties. 
