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generally distributed over the whole State, attacking lettuce, 
beans, and other crops. 
F. Sherman- (March 27): Adults were taken in flight at Clemson 
College as early as March 11 and living adults in considerable 
numbers were cent from an eastern county on February 23. 
.:. H. 3 runs on (April- 20) : The spotted cucumber beetle is 
moderately abundant. 
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M. S. Yeomans (April 22): This insect is moderately abundant. 
F. 3.. Chamberlin (April 8): Adults of this insect are very 
abundant in Gadsden County on truck crops, especially beans and 
cucumbers, and a slight infestation has been found on tobacco. 
R. W. Earned (April 22) : Adult specimens were collected on 
snap beans at Carriere March 28, but little or no injury had 
been caused. Larvae of this species were reported as seriously 
injuring the crown and roots of young corn at Ovett April 18. 
• A HOLE CRICKET ( Sc~-teriscus acletus R. & E.) 
':'.. IL High (March 24): This mole cricket continues to be- nu- 
n .rous in several localities near Gulfport and Lyman, where it 
attacks various truck croos, as cabbage, lettuce, etc. 
R. W. Earned (April 25): On April 24 a correspondent at 
Pi-^ve, Green County, sent in some specimens determined by J.. . 
Langston as Sc-^pteriscus acletus , with the following comments: 
"The habits of these insects so far as I can determine are sim- 
ilar to that of a mole, J&iey burrow and make miniature mounds 
while travelling up and down the drill where the seed are 
planted." 
NORTHERS MOLE CRICKET ( C-ryllotalpa hexadactyla Ferty) 
J. J. Davis (April 26): A mole cricket (Gryll ptalpa borealis ^ 
v/as repotted as abundant and attacking tomato seed in soil at 
Greencastle April 20. 
TARNISHED PLANT BUG ( L-.y-us ur atensis L.) 
L. Easeman (April 24): .Overwintering adults have been active 
during April on apple blossoms, and injury to strawberry blos- 
soms has been reported. 
G. F. P'nowlton (April 10): The tarnished plant bug was found 
around the margins of last year's sugar-beet fields at Brigham 
City and Vill-rd. ■ This insect was very abundant on alfalfa and 
rather numerous on susar beets during the summer of 1928 
