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New Mexico J.. R. Eyer (March) : Beet leafhopper adults are abundant 
on tansy-mustard. Eg^s are present in foliage and a few 
nymphs are hatching. 
BEET LEAF BEETLE (Monoxia nuncticollis Say) 
Utah G. F. Knowlton (March 15): Beet leafbeetles are active on 
warm days at Sriowville . In a few small areas they are moder- 
ately abundant . 
MUSHROOL'S 
GREENHOUSE CENTIPEDE ( Scut jge re 11a iinmaculata Newp . ) 
Ohio T. H, Parks (March 24): A telephone call from Celina 
stated that centipedes were destroying mushrooms in a mushroom 
house. Identification was not secured "but the description fits 
the above named snecies. 
TOBACCO 
TGBkCCO PLEA BEETLE ( Epitrix parvula Fab.) 
North Carolina C. H. Brannon (March 25): The tobacco flea beetle is causing 
widespread damage to tobacco plant beds all over the eastern 
part of the State. 
FOREST AND SHADE-TREE INSECTS 
BA&WORM ( Thyridopteryx ephemera efonnis Haw.) 
Ohio T. H. Parks (March 24): Bagworm cases on trees and shrubs 
at Columbus very rarely carry living eggs this sprint. They 
carry mostly dead pupae, some of which contain parasites. 
Kansas R. L. Parker (March 20): The bagworm is reported as attacking 
box elder in Dexter. 
FOREST TENT CATERPILLAR (■■■lalacosorra disstria Kuebn.) 
Utah G. F. Knov/lton (March 26): The following parasites were 
reared from the forest tent caterpillar material, collected at 
Provo during August 1929 by Dr. H. J. Pack; Ephialtes pedal is 
(Cress.) Ephialtes sanguinipes (Cress.) Theronia fulvescens 
(Cress.) and Microbracon yanthonotus (Ashm.). The last species 
named was most numerous, and was also reared from material col- 
lected in Sardine Canyon, July 2, 1929. Determined by C. F. »7. 
(•Cue sebeck. 
