on the South Coast, Isidore being one of the outlying colonies 
of the Central Aguirre. On a previous trip about a month ago 
Mr. Wolcott and I had noticed the cotton stainer. or "union" 
as it is called here, quite abundant on volunteer cotton trees 
in that section and on this trip I noticed the adults clustered 
in large numbers on small pieces of the silk of the Caiba on the 
ground, at times there being from forty to a hundred insects on 
a small piece of fiber. Incidentally, the chickens were busily 
proving their interest in this particular insect. Mr. Wolcott 
tells ms that he has never noticed these stainers on this Ceiba 
fiber before, and therefore the observation may have some interest, 
as one of the Trinidad publications some time ago recommended 
the use of bunches of this fiber around cotton plants as an attract- 
ant for the Dysdercus - the species found at Isidoro was a ndreae 
Linnaeus, by the way - which could afterwards be collected and 
destroyed by dropping them into kerosene or fire. 
CARABID BEETLE ( Aniso tarsus nitidinennis .Lcc. det. 
Schwarz) 
Texas P. C» Bishopp (May 2*4): This carabid beetle was found in great 
numbers in cotton fields in the vicinity of Dallas during the 
middle of May, Dozens of the beetles were often found about an 
inch under the soil immediately surrounding the germinating 
cotton, and they appeared to be gnawing on the cotyledons as they 
unfolded. The stand of cotton in certain fields was seriously 
damaged. 
TOBACCO 
TOBACCO THRIPS (rr ankliniolla fusca Hinds) 
Florida F. S. Chamberlin (May 7): Heavy rains this month have practically 
eliminated the infestation of the tobacco thrips at Quincy. 
SOUTHERN GREEN STINK-BUG (Nezara viridula L.) 
Florida F. S. Chamberlin (May 17): Very few stink-bugs have been observed 
on tobacco planted atound Quincy this season. It appears that the 
low temperatures last winter reduced the numbers of this insect 
to a marked degree. 
T03^.CC0 BUD770RM (Holiothis virescens Fab.) 
Georgia F, S. Chamberlin (May 1): Tobacco fields in this region are 
heavily infested with this pest at Tifton. 
GREEN JUNE BEETLE ( Cotinis nitida L.) 
Tennessee A. C. Morgan (April 29): The larvae of the grubworm beetle is 
quite injurious at present on tobacco beds which were sown in the 
old seed beds of last year. It is becoming more customary to 
sow beds in the same situation year after year and protect them 
» during the summer with a covering of manure, straw, or tobacco 
stalks. This covering has proven attractive to the beetle for 
the deposition of its eggs and remedial mea.sures have been necessary 
upon a large number of these second-year beds. 
