-60- 
TRUCK-CROP INSECTS 
TT D~::TAPLT WEEVIL ( Tistro---res oil ier Gyll.) 
Mississippi R, 77. Earned (March 25): Larvae of the vegetable weevil 
have "been received at this office from Holmes, Jones, Rankin, 
•.and Jefferson Counties, with the statement in each case that 
turnips had "been seriously injured, 
■ . r. D. Peets (March 22): The vegetable weevil is doing 
considerable dama-se to tomato plants in cold frames in 
Copiah and Lincoln Counties. 
California Stewart Lockwood (March 5): The vegetable weevil is nov 
. found in portions of .ten counties pbout the San Francisco 
• - T district. One of these, Monterey County, has been ad 
to the. area by a. survey in February . (Determined by 3yril 
Gammon.) 
North Carolina 
Oklahoma 
STRIPED CUX:r=ZR ^DTTLZ ( Dirbrotica -itt-tr Fab.) 
■ W. A. /Thomas (March 24): The first specimen of this insect 
observed this season wa.s token from the bloom of choked srry 
grown in the roods adjacent to an old strawberry field. 
C. E. Sanborn (March 19): The striped cucumber beetle is 
scarce. 
Georgia 
Mississippi 
• SPOTTEE CUCUMBER BEETLE ( Diabroticu duodecimtunctata Fab.) 
C. H. Alden (March 22): The spotte.d cucumber beetle is 
rately abundant at Thomaston. - .- - few at 3orr li 
J. E. Gill (March 22): The spot: d cucumber be tie is 
rtcoderately abundant on peach trees -nd other nl nts in bloom. 
A MOLE 3RICKET ( Sc-^tcriscus acletus R. 8 R\) 
. ". Earned (March 25): A correspondent t Bexley, C-eor 
County, sent to us on March 11 some adult mole srici t that 
ha.ve been identified by !.r. J. '.'.. Langston as Sc-.rteriscus 
acletus . They were re-oort. d -s causing injury to 
garden plants . 
H. Dietrich (March 23): Mole crickets are r oorted 3 "h 
in gardens at Lucedale . 
Alabama 
NORT " 3RICEET ( Gryllotalp° hex iacty] rty) 
J. M. Robinson (March 33): The northern mol- cricket is 
moderately ? v t on warden ve * Les t Bill. 
