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TORTOISS BEETLES (Cassidinae) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (May 25)' Chelymorpha cassidea F. , Jonthonota nigripes 
Oliv. , and Metriona bivittata Say are very numerous on sweetpotatoes at 
Corinth. 
Louisiana. K. L. Dozier (May 17) • Sweetpotato vines are being generally 
attacked by tortoise beetles at Opelousas. Injury to foliage quite 
noticeable. 
SUGAR BEETS 
BEET LEAFHOPPER ( Eutettix tenellus Bak. ) 
Idaho. J. R. Douglass (May 2^0 : 'The spring brood of leafhoppers in south- 
central Idaho is comparatively large owing to the moderately high spring 
population of overwintered leafhoppers and an abundance of favorable host 
plants on which to reproduce. The warm, dry weather Of May has been 
favorable for the early development of the spring brood; therefore the 
migration into the cultivated areas will begin about June 1 and should 
reach the peak about June 18. Already there are a few overwintered leaf- 
hoppers within the cultivated area but this is a normal occurrence, as a 
few of the insects remain within the cultivated area each winter. 
Utah. G. E. Knowlton (May 17) * Beet leafhoppers were rather abundant on sugar 
beets west of Provo and less abundant at Plain City, in northern Utah. 
H. E. Dorst (May 2^>) : Large long-distance migration of beet leafhoppers 
from southern Utah, southern Nevada, and northern Utah, extended from 
Richfield to the Idaho State line on the north. Migration of April 23 to 
May 20 reached the beets while they were in the cotyledon stage and 
reached the tomato-growing district from Payson to Garland during plant- 
ing time. 
BEAN APHID ( Aphis rumicis L. ) 
California. A. E. Michelbacher (May 2l): An aphid believed to be A. rumicis 
was doing serious injury to a sugar-beet planting near Stockton on May J. 
The beets were literally covered with the pest. 
HO? ELEA BEETLE ( Pr.ylliodes punctata Melsh. ) 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (May 22): Hop flea beetles are damaging sugar beets in 
northern Utah and injury to young seedlings is reported as very severe 
in Gunnison Valley. Replanting due to this cause is reported in a number 
of instances. 
TOBACCO 
TOBACCO HORNWORMS ( Protoparce spp. ) 
North Carolina. J. P. Vinzant (May 25): First eggs observed this year were 
found on tobacco in the field on May 2U at Oxford. 
