ONION THRIPS ( Thrl-ng t abaci Lind. ) 
Nebraska. M. H. SrerU- (October 8): A Neiraha County correst>ondent reported 
that the onion thrips ras destroying his late cabbage cror>. 
SQUASH 
SQUASH BUG ( Anasa tristi* DeG. ) 
Kansas. H. E. Bryson (October 5): Souash hugs are auite abundant in rrutrokin 
and squash plantings. Oring to the dry weather during the sumer, 
souashes and purrokins are corroaratively fe<-er than in past years, but 
those that survived have a high copulation of bugs. Many of the bugs 
are still irrmature. 
Utah. G. IP. Knorlton (October 15): Scuash bugs have caused serious dairage 
to souash in infected areas of the State. A fe^ agricultural sections 
have not as yet becoTe infested. 
MELON TOEM ( Diauhania hyalinata L. ) 
South Carolina. W. C. Nettles (October 27): The n-elon T'orn" is unusually 
destructive to stetrs of late souash near Beaufort. 
TURITIP 
TURNIP APHID ( Phonal osl-nhuT pse udobrassicae Davis) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (October 23): Injury to turnips is reported as light 
at Ocean Sorings and severe at Grenada, Jackson, Meridian, and Kosciusko. 
CA3R0T 
A GEOMETPJD ( Orthona-ra obstiuata Pab. ) 
Mississippi. M. M. High (October 21)5 A single sueciiren *-as reared frorr 
carrot at Biloxi. (Det. by P. H. Benjamin. ) 
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SWEETPOTATO TEEVIL ( Cyls.s forrricarius Pab. ) 
Mississippi. G. L. Bond (October 23) j S^eetpotato weevils are rather abun- 
dant along the coast of Jackson County east of the Pascagoula River. 
S TDA-73E RDY 
STBAT5E3HY LEAP POLLED ( Ancyl i- co to tana Proel. ) 
Ohio. E. W. Menderiha.il (October IS): The strawberry leaf roller is very in- 
jurious to straHserry plants in Clark, Miairi, and Montgomery Counties 
this fall. There seeTs to be a late brood which is very abundant. 
