Texas 
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southern ft eld- crop insects 
Cotton 
SALT-MARSH CATERPILLAR (Sstigmene acraea Drury) 
F. L. Thomas (April 25): R. E. Balls' at Falacios, Matagorda 
County, reported that a former replanted 70 acres of cotton as a 
result of injury "by the salt-marsh caterpillar, presumably 
Esti^mene acraea . Injury to cotton was also noticed in Brazoria 
County. 
TOBACCO 
North Carolina 
South Carolina 
South Carolina 
TOBACCO FLEA BEETLE ( Bpitrix parvula Fab.) 
C. H. Brannon (April IS): The tobacco flea "beetle is very 
abundant over the whole State. 
M. H. Brunson (April 20): This insect is very scarce. 
SLUGS (Mollusc a) 
F. Sherman (March 27): Slugs have several times been re- 
ported damaging tobacco seedlings in plant beds in eastern 
counties; quite possibly they have increased under our heavy 
rainfall. 
";'. H. Brunson (April 1): Slugs were very destructive on to- 
bacco plant "beds in northeastern South Carolina during the 
last half of March. 
Louisiana 
Louisiana 
ississippi 
SUQAECANS 
SUGARCANE BORER ( Biatraea saccharalis Fab.) 
W. E. Haley (April 4): Eggs and f irst-insta.r larvae of the 
sugarcane borer were found today in Lafourche Parish. 
SUGARCANE BEETLE ( Euetheola rugiceps Lee . ) 
"■■ . S. Haley (April 5) : The sugarcane beetle was found in- 
juring sugarcane in Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes. 
GRAY SUGARCANE MEALYBUG ( Pseudococaus boninsis Kuwana) 
R. W. Harned (April 22): The first specimens of this sugar- 
cane mealybug that have been recorded from Mississippi were col- 
lected late in March by Inspector '.V. L. Gr^y on sugarcane grow- 
ing at Melton. This sugarcane had been shipped into Mississippi 
from Geismar, Louisiana, and had been distributed to a number 
of properties, but every reasonable effort will be made to erad- 
icate the pest. 
