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TOBACCO BUlTom: ( Eel io this v irescens Fab J 
'lorida F. 3. Chamberlin (April 5): Eggs of the tobacco bud ,,T orm were 
found at Quincy on April G for the first time this season. This 
• insect usually appears somewhat earlier in this locality. There 
is no damage yet. 
TOBACCO HQHHWOHM ( Protoearce sexta Job. ) 
teorgia F. 3. Chamberlin (April 21): The first eggs and larvae of the 
tobacco hornworm observed this season were found in a field near 
Tifton. 
TOBACCO FLEA- BEETLE (( Epitrix rarvula Fab. ) 
'lorida F. 3. Chamberlin (April 10): Itfewly set tobacco is moderately in- 
fested with newly emerged flea-beetles in Gadsden County. 
FICE 
BICL STIKK-EUG ( Solubea mummam Fab. ) 
or.isiana J. '1. Ingram (Anril 18): The first rice stinkr-bugs of the season 
~ere observed feeding on grass near Crowley on the night of April 
17. The majority of these hid themselves during the daytime, as 
a much smaller number was observed feeding on the following day 
than mas feeding the night before. 
SUGAHCAKS BEETLE { Sue th cola .. rurlcviug-- Lee . ) 
ouisiana J. 77. Ingram (April 21): Sugarcane beetles have been found feed- 
ing on young rice in many fields in southwestern Louisiana. In 
soma cases the stand of rice has "been seriously reduced. "here 
the rice was of sufficient size to permit it, the beetle has been 
destroyed by flooding the fields. 
SUGBRCAKE BEETLE ( buetheola rv^ice-os Lee ) 
Duisiana J. "7. Ingram (April 9): The growing points of a number of sugar- 
cane plants r -ere found dead in a field of cane on the station farm 
at Crowley. Upon investigation the damage -as found to be caused 
by the sugarcane beetle, I i, gyrus rugiceps . 
