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Oregon L. P. fi^ckwood (July 10): This is the first year we have collected 
r Mf this bsetle here although . lb h&rf" "been in other parts of the Stat 
for a few years past. Insects appear to have worked into this siaj 
valley, the Tuslatin Valley, about 5 years after their appearance in 
the main valley (~illia»tt«X.. 
BEAFS 
TJfeOHMS (Elatcridne) 
California Roy E. Campbell (July l): Tireworms, P hcletes c^l if ornicus . have 
caused considerable damage to beans, particularly linas, in parts 
of Orange and Ventura Counties. 
A T1IITE GRUB ( Phyllouhag gt lmceolrta Say) 
New Mexico J. E. Douglass (July 19): The adults of P hyllochag a lanceolata 
have been noted feeding on voluntesr beans since June 28 in the 
foothills west of the Estancia Valley.. Infestation light, no 
increase over last season. 
HEKiCAK BEAU BEETLE ( Epilachna cor runt a Muls.) 
Virginia Neale E. Howard (July 21 ): In the locality of McCoy, Montgomery 
County, this insect was reported. 
North Carolina Franklin Sherman (June 30): The complaints indicate it as worse 
than usual in our mountains, where it has been for several years. 
It is also causing much worry in the foothill section where this 
is the first year of injury. 
Indiana Neale P. Howard (July 21): Reported from Crawford, Dearborn, 
Harrison, Jennings, Orange, Ripley, Scott, Switzerland, and Wash- 
ington Counties. 
Harry P. Diets (July 23): No heavy infestations of the Mexican 
bean beetle were found in the area that we covered. However, we 
found suspicious injury but no beetles at Tobinsport in Perry 
County. The counties in which this insect has been found in 
Indiana in destructive numbers are Clarke, Scott, "ashington, 
Ployd, Crawf ord, and Orange. It will probably take in the whole 
southern quarter of the State next year. 
J. J. Davis (July 23): First records, by county, in 1925 as 
follows: Harrison, June 24; Floyd, July 2; Crawford, July 3; 
Washington, July 7; Dearborn, July S; Ripley, July 9; Jennings, 
July 11; Scott, July 11; Orange, July 18; Monroe, July 20; 
Fayette, July 22. Home garden beans are heavily infested and 
the adults of the second generation have migrated to the larger 
canning bean acreage. Considerable damage is anticipated. 
