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Ca&ifornia r„ r. McLean (April 15 ): Seed-corn-raaggnts ( Phorbia fusciceps Zett.) 
unusually active this spring in San Diegf* County, also destroying 
bean, corn, melon, and cucumber seed. Other maggots have destroyed 
a number of acres of tomatoes, tunneling up the sterns of plants 
several inches high. The excessive amount of injury is probably 
due to a succession of dry rr inters, large numbers of overwintering 
forms in the soil being able to survive. 
CA33aG3 MAGGOT ( Hylemy ia brassicae Bouche) 
California r„ r. McLean (April 15)2 Maggots found in cauliflower heads 
badly infested in San Diego County. Some 100 acres infested. 
Species not yet determined but probably the western radish 
maggot or some related species, such as the cabbage maggot, 
Fhorbia plan ips I t iff Stein and P. brassicae Bouche. attacks 
possibly induced by successive plantings of cauliflowers and the 
use of fish meal as a fettilizer, this seeming to attract adult 
flies. 
South Carolina 
M0L3 CRICX3T ( Gryllotalna boreal is 3urm.) 
Philip Luginbill Upril l6)r Mr. I. 3. MalPhrus wrote as follows: 
,r 7e have an insect that runs under the dirt and damages the little 
plants. Some people call them the English ground mole. They 
are about one inch lon^ and run about one- half inch under the 
the dirt and make a little trail like a ground -nole," This is 
evidently the mole cricket* 
Mississippi 
POTATO 
GRalTJL^TS CUTWORM ( ?eltia anne-a T reit.) 
R* 7* Harned (^pril 10): Inspector H. Gladney of Ocean Springs 
sent in 23 cutworms that ""'ere collected around Irish potatoes 
on March 21. These specimens have been determined by Mr. H, 
r h Allen as the granulate cutworm. Mr. Gladney wrote: "as 
many as 12 cutworms ^ere found around some of the potatoes. The 
plants are about U inches high." 
S0UTHERK GR322J PLANT-BUG (1'ezara viridula L-) 
1!\, S. Chamberlin (ipril 1): Fotato frliage is being slightly 
damaged by this pest in Gadsden County, 
BRO'-'IT ST DTK-BUG ( iftischistus servus Say) 
F* S* Chamberlin (April 8); In Gadsden County the potato foliage 
is being slightly damaged by this bug. 
POTATO B SETTLE (Leotinotarsa deep-.], in eat a Say) 
North Carolina ',,", &. Thomas (itoril 3): This insect has she n up in unusual 
numbers in many of the potato fields at Chadburn and Is rajidly 
depositing eggs on the young foliage. The plants ^ill no" 
average about 3 inches in height and re zrc"ing ran idly. 
Florida 
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