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were sent to Dr. L. 0. Howard and v/ere identified by '.7. S. Fisher 
as Anthonomus nigrinus . On August 1 v/eevils identified by Mr. Fisher 
as AnthonoiTnis nigrinus vere sent to us from Hattiesburg vhere they 
-vere reported as "knocking the blooms off late eggplants." 
RED SPIDER (Te tranychus telarius L. ) 
Ohio E. W. ilendenhall (August 11): Eggplants in southwestern Ohio are 
luite badly infested -.vith the red spider. 
FIRE ANT ( Solenopsis geminata Fab. ) 
Mississippi M. R. Smith (August l): R. P. Colmer sent to this office recently 
some eggplants -.vhich he stated had oeen seriously injured by the 
-ire ant. These ants had tunnelled out the stems of the plants 
and gnar/ed holes in the petioles of the leaves. 
S7EET POTATO 
BANDED CUCUMBER BEETLE ( Diabrotic a balteata Lee.) 
Mississippi K. L. Cockerhara (July 30): This insect continues very numerous in 
sweet-potato fields around Biloxi. In walking across a field, 
great numbers of beetles fly out around one's feet. A fo-; sleeps 
of a collecting net brings in hundreds of beetles. The foliage 
sho-;;s distinct feeding marks. Numerous other crops and -.-reeds are 
also being attacked by this beetle. 
SSI.3 TROPICAL AmrTTTORH ( Prodenia eridania Gram.) 
Mississippi R. '7. Harned (August 22) : Specimens of the semi tropical army-7orm 
--ere received on August l6 from Poplnrville -.-.here they -ere reported 
as causing serious damage to saeet notato plants. Specimens of 
this species collected on cotton -,-ere received from Eden August 13. 
The determinations uere made by S. S. Crumb of the Bureau of Entom- 
ology. 
TURNIP 
TURNIP APHID ( Rhopalosiphum pseudobrassicae Davis) 
Alabama L. 7,*. Brannon (August 12): This species is doing considerable dam- 
age to turnips in this locality (Birmingham). I have seen several 
fields of turnips that -.vere so seriously damaged that they -ere 
unmarketable. 
