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California. A. E. .Michelbacher (February 19): This beetle has been present 
in fair numbers all winter. 
SEED CORN MAGGOT ( Hylemyia cilicrura Rond.) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (February 21): The seed corn maggot has attracted the 
attention of early gardeners at various places. Injury to seeds and 
young plants in gardens was reported from Bogue Cliitto in Lincoln 
County on January 9, injury to cabbage at Star in Rankin County and 
Edwards in Hinds County was reported on January 25, and a grower at 
Pascagoula in Jackson County reported severe injury to young English 
pea plants on February 3. 
Texas. F. L. Thomas (February 21): The seed corn maggot is at present 
causing slight injury to spinach at Dickinson, Galveston County, and 
Winterhaven, Dimmit County. 
SAY'S STIFK BUG ( Chlorochroa sayi Stal) 
California. A. E. Michelbacher (February 19): Say's plant bug has been 
present in fair numbers all winter. 
SOUTHERN GREEN STIFK BUG ( Nezara viridula L.) 
Louisiana. W. S. Hinds (February 21): A pair was observed mating at Baton 
Rouge . 
FLOWER THRIPS ( Frankliniella tritici Fitch), 
Mississippi. M. M. High (January 2): The wheat or grass thrips was found 
very abundant attacking cucumber and beans, and less numerous on tomato 
in Gulf port greenhouses. The writer has never before found this thrips 
so abundant on cucumber. The injury was severe only in one house where 
adults and larvae were numerous. 
A MOLE CRICKET ( Gryllotalpa sp.) 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (February 16): Mole crickets are moderately abundant 
in vegetable gardens at Brundidge . 
' TOMATO 
TOMATO PIN WORM ( Gnor imp schema lycopersicella Busck) 
Pennsylvania. C. A. Thomas (February 21): Dr. Guyton's inspectors found the 
tomato pin worm near New- Castle , Lawrence County, which is not far from 
the Ohio border. 
Correction: The note on G_. lyc opersicella Busck, in the Summary for 1933, 
p. 335, Insect Pest Survey Bulletin, should be "southeastern Pennsylvania" 
instead of "northeastern" in the second line. 
