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very serious injury to young plants in Salt River Valley, and 
two fields were injured near Phoenix. 
SflSST POTATO 
SV7EZT -POTATO FLEA BEETLE ( Chaetocnema confinis Crotch) 
South Carolina M. K. ^runson (April 9): The sweet-potato flea beetle was 
first noticed feeding on sweet potato April 9 but only slight 
. damage has been reported so far. 
SUGAR BEET " 
BEET LSAFHOPPER (Sutettix t enellus Baker) 
New liexico J. P. Eyer (April 27): Beet leafhoppers appear in all beet 
sections of the State and are very abundant. They feed on to- 
mato, tobacco, squash, and Russian thistle also. 
Idaho C. Wakeland (April 32): Very severe winter mortality of this 
insect in the natural breeding areas throughout southern Idaho 
has produced a scarcity of this insect. In a few localities 
where low-headed rosettes of wild mustards survived the winter, 
there are a few centers of fairly heavy populations which may 
give rise to migrations to cultivated areas on a small scale if 
favorable weather conditions arise. 
T Jtah G. F. Inowlton (April 2): Three beet leafhoppers were col- 
lected in the vicinity of Fyrum April 12. 
TURFIP 
TURNIP APHID ( Rhopalosfphura r.3 eudobrassicae Davis 
Arizona 0. L. Barnes (April 23): The turnip aphid, Aphis -pseudobrass j- 
cae , has been plentiful on turnips in and near Phoenix. I ob- 
served one small planting of turnips almost completely de- 
stroyed by it . 
SPINACH 
POTATO APHID ( Illinoia solanifolii Aahra.) 
Virginia G. E. Gould (April 18): Some fields of spinach are moderately 
heavily infected with the pink and green potato aphid. It is 
easily the predominant species on this host at present. 
of the individuals are developing wings. 
