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was from Appomattox, Virginia, and consisted of the following 
species. 
F eltia ducens Walker . . 26 larvae 
?_eltia gladiaria Morr ' . 2 larvae 
Pol ia renigera Stephens 1 larva.. 
There is considerable complaint of cutworm injury in tobacfcfl plant 
"beds in the region about Lexington. The principal species concerned 
is Feltia gladiaria Morr. 
BUDWCRM ( Heliothis vireacens Fab.) 
Florida F, s. Charaberlin (May S): At Gadsden 'the buAworm infestation on 
tobacco is much below normal at the present. This is apparently 
due to the prolonged drought which either delays or prevents the 
emergence of moths from the soil. 
GREEN PEACH APHID (Mv_zus persicae Sulz.) 
Florida F. S, Chamberlin (May U); This specie's of aphid has been taken from 
tobacco plants recently at Quincy. It does not appear to thrive upon 
this food plant and no damage to the crop:-, has yet been observed. 
" rice 
RICE STALK BCEER ( Chilo -ple.iadellus Zinck. ) 
Louisiana J. W. Ingram (May 15) : The first moth emerged in the hibernation 
cages at Crowly on th.is date. 
♦SUBABCANE BEETLE ( Euetheola rugiceps Lee. ) 
Louisiana J. W, Ingram (May 21): The damage to rice by sugarcane beetles 
has continued heavy in unflooded fields during the month at Crowley. 
In the flooded fields the damage to rice on the lewses has been 
heavy, in some cases 'resulting in a loss of as much as one-half of 
the stand. 
SUGARCANE 
SUGARCANE BCRER (Diatraea saccharalis Fab.) 
Georgia Monthly Letter of the Bureau of Entomology No. 132 (April): The 
first definite record of the sugarcane moth borer in the region of 
Cairo, Ga. , has been furnished by Dr. P. A. Yoder, of the Bureau of 
Plant Industry, who brought a living specimen to this Bureau for 
identification. 
FOREST AN D SHADE-TREE INSECTS 
MI SCELLANEOUS FEEDERS 
JUNE BEETLES ( Phyllouhaga spp. ) 
Missouri L. Haseman (May lU') • At night the beetles are so abundant in 
trees in central Missouri as to sound like a swaTm of bees. About 
