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TRUCK-CROP INSECTS 
BLISTER BEETLES (Meloidae) 
Ohio. E. 77. Mendenhali (August 22): Black "blister beetles ( Epicauta 
pennsylvanica Dog.) are injurious on gladiolus flowers in Franklin 
C oun ty , cent r al Ohi o • 
Arkansas. D, Isely (August 22): Blister beetle injury reported from... 
practically all counties in the northern half of the State. Most of 
the specimens submitted are striped blister beetle (E. vittata F. ). 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (August 2^): Considerable damage to late tomatoes 
by E. lenniscata F. reported from various sections of the State. 
Specimens of E. marginata F. were sent in on August 19 from Paulding, 
Jasper County, southeastern Mississippi, with the report -that they 
were found. on practically all garden plants. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (August 23): Blister beetles reported damaging 
potato and tomato in Dawson County, central Nebraska, on August 1, 
and tomatoes and other garden crops in Pawnee County, southeastern 
part of the State, on August 2. Gray blister beetle (E. cinerea 
Forst. ) reported attacking tomato, principally, and potato plants in 
Richardson, Douglas, and Jefferson Counties during late -July and ear]y 
August. Complaints of damage to tomato, and in one instance, pigweed, 
by striped blister beetle (E. lemniscata F. ) were received from Richard- 
son, Douglas, Pawnee ,' Lancaster, and Kearney Counties during- the latter 
part of July. The immaculate blister beetle ( Macro basis immaculata 
Say) was reported late in July from Adams and Kearney Counties in the 
south-central part of the State, where it was damaging potatoes and 
Chinese elm trees. Tomatoes, potatoes, and other garden crops in 
Richardson, Seward, .and Jefferson Counties reported damaged by the 
segmented blister beetle *M, segmentata Say) • 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson. (August 2U): Blister beetles abundant but for the 
most part not doing much damage. Pigweed and other weeds apparently 
heavily infested. Injury to crops largely confined* to tomato patches. 
CUCUMBER BEETLES ( Diabrotica spp.) 
Massachusetts. A. I. Bourne (August 2H): Summer brood of striped cucumber 
beetles j^resent during the early part of the month and much more 
abundant than usual for this brood. 
South Carolina. J. G. Watts (August 10-25)* Spotted cucumber beetle, band- 
ed cucumber beetle, and striped cucumber beetle abundant on fall cucum- 
bers and coming to trap light in larger numbers than at any time during 
this season. Field estimates on D. vittata show that they are no 
more abundant now than they were on early summer cucumbers. Obser- 
vations made at Blackville , Barnwell County, in the southwestern part 
of the State* 
