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(Juiie 18): This insect is now in the fi ret -gene rat ion adult ?ta 
Tbe nymphs of the first generation were a pest in at least two 
pecan orchards of the State. Two applications of nicotine sulphate 
were effective in one orchard against the nymphal stages, A second 
generation should develop during July* 
CITRUS AND S jU 3 T R P I C A L F H B 1 X S 
Klabama H, P. Loding (June 22): The following insects were reported attacking 
winter-killed "branches and trees of Satsuraas: 
Anonlium inerm e Newm, E cyru s dasycerus Say 
Ataxia crypt a Say Eupogonius vestitus Say 
Hypermailus paralellus Newm. Li opu s fascicular i$ Harris 
Bostrichus bicornis 7/eb. Li opus ~ : al p'na Say 
X ylobiop s basilar^ Say Lept urges _syr,metr icus Bald, 
Amphicerus bicau^atus Say Lept urges nuerci Fitch 
Lyp si me na fuscata Lee. Lepto stylu s biustus Lee. 
MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY ( Ceratitig ca pi tat a Wied. ) 
California State Department of Agriculture News Letter, Vol. 8 „No. 11 (May 2°); 
'Then the oil tanker Pleiodon from New Zealand via Honolulu arrived 
in port at Los Angeles inspectors for the California.. Department 
of Agriculture intercepted quantities of contraband fruits and 
vegetables in the lockers and an examination showed tomatoes 
heavily infested with larvae of this fly* These vegetables "ere 
immediately confiscated and destroyed by burning. 
TRUCK -CROP INSECTS 
MISCELLANEOUS FEEDERS 
CARROT BEETLE ( ligyru n gibbosus. DeC. ) 
insas j. Yif. McColloch (June 7): Adults have been received from harden 
City, Moscow, and Densmore, with the information that the;; are 
causing severe loss to tomato, carrot, squash, pumpkin, and 
ornamentals by feeding on the roots. 
PaINTED LADY (Vanessa enrdui, L.) 
diana J. j\ Davis (June 26); The thistle caterpillar has been report id 
from several localities in central Indiana^as abundant on Canada 
thistle, 
linois C. C. Compton (June 12): Butterflies of Vanessa cardui have been 
very numerous in northern Illinois during the. past three weeks.. 
TORTOISE BEETLES (Cassidinae) 
ssissippi R„ 77.., Harned (June 21); Complaints in regard to tortoise beetles 
accompanied by specimens have be em received from many localities 
UBRARY 
STATE PLANT BOARD 
