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the State. 
Kentucky. W. A. Price (August 2^-): More active and numerous this season than 
usual. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (August 2*+'): In southeastern Missouri it has extended 
its western spread over the first two to four tiers of counties and 
has caused serious damage to garden plantings of beans as far west as 
Poplar Bluff. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (August 2U): Infestations reported as follows: on 
August 21, stripping vegetable beans over Monroe County; on August 22, 
heavy infestation in Lauderdale, Jasper, and Newton Counties; on August 
20, severe injury to beans at West Point, Clay County. Heavy damage in 
Chickasaw and Scott Counties. Reported on August 2H from Lafayette County 
for the first time. 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (August l): Damaging beans at Oastleton, Moab, Green 
River, and Huntington, all in eastern Utah. 
A WEEVIL ( Hyp era meles P.) 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr* News Letter (August 1): In Livingston County, 
western New York, this weevil was observed destroying field beans 
growing adjacent to a barn in which clover hay had been placed recently. 
Injury was progressively less away from the barn and was absent 50 
yards away. Plants near the barn contained from 10 to ^>0 weevils. 
During the last 3 weeks the clover-head weevil has been unusually 
abundant about barns in' which hay has been stored. 
COTTON-SQUARE BORER ( Stryroon melinus Hbn.) 
Utah. G. P. Knowlton (August 6): Collected at Spanish Pork, north-*central 
Utah, Reported as damaging pole beans in that, vicinity. (Let. by C. 
Heinrich.) 
BEAN APHID ( Aphis rumicis L.) 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (August l): Reported- to be 
abundant in some fields of lima beans in Livingston County, western 
New York. 
PEAS 
PEA MOTH ( Laspeyresia nigricana Steph. ) 
Maine. G. W. Simpson (August l): About 30 percent of the pods of peas in 
a home garden at Presque Isle, northeastern Maine, were infested. 
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