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SPIFACK 
3PIHACH LE':F LHUEE (Pe- gpmyia hypscyami Pnnz. ) 
tfer: York C. H. Crosby and assistants: In Oswego County a number of crops 
^ere rejected on account of this pest. 
OJffiCTS 
PAKSLEt STALK TESVIL (List rono tus l a tiiis cuius Boh. ) 
Illinois u . P. .Flint (July 20)- Adults of this insect have bec-n "bred from 
larvae taken ir. carrots in Clinton Count/. Severe damage is re- 
ported to carrots in one area of this county. 
FG-OFI/ihT 
EGGPLANT IACEFJG ( Garga-ohia so Ian i Heid. ) 
lississippi 3. 77. Earned (July 8): On June 29 a complaint accompanied by 
specimens of the eggplant lacebug, Gargaphia sojlani, v;as received 
from a correspondent from Prairie, in L'oriroe County. Judging 
from the ^bund-nee of these insects on the leaves received, they 
r;ere probably causing considerable damage to eggplants at that 
point. i 
H OPS 
HOP APHID (P horodon humul i Schrank) 
)regon Don C. ".iote (June 16): Tinged migrants, adults, and immature 
Tringless females on leaves in the "illp.mette Valley have been re- 
ported. Some growers have already started spraying operations; 
others arc making preparations. 
RADISH 
CABBAGE IJAGGOT (Hylsmyia b rassica e Bouche) 
South Dakota H. C. Severin (July 20): An unusually early and severe attack 
of- radish maggots occurred in eastern South Dakota this spring. 
SV;PF2 POTATOES 
TORTOISE BEETLES. (Cassidirae) 
Endiana J. J. Davis (July 23): Tortoise .beetle larvae reported injuring 
sreet potatoes at Cannelton, July 1, and Vincennes , July 7. 
'ississippi E. TT. Earned (July 8): Specimens of tortoise beetles identified 
as Jonthonata nigripes 01 iv. and Metriona bivittata Say have been 
received from Columbus in Lov/ndes County, where they vrere reported 
as damaging sweet potatoes; specimens identified as Chelymorpha 
cassidea Fab. , as damaging svreet potatoes at Shannon in Lee County. 
