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HOP PLEA. BEETLE ( Psylliodes punctulata Melsh. ) 
G. P. Knowlton (June 15): The hop flea beetle caused damage 
to sugar beets in a few fields at Wallsbur^. 
TOBACCO 
POTATO TUBER WORM ( Phthorimaea operculella Zell.) 
P. S. Charaberlin (June 20): A slight infestation of this 
insect occurred throughout the tobacco region in Gadsden 
County. No commercial damage has resulted so far. 
W. A. Price (June 25): The tobacco split worm has now arrived 
in Kentucky. Baring the past week specimens were received in the 
office from Owensboro, Bremen, Lexington, and Utica. According 
to our office records this is the first appearance of this pest 
in the State. 
A. C. Morgan, J. U. Gilmore, and J.. Milam (June 22): The to- 
bacco splitworm has evidenced itself in one small infestation 
near Clarksville in the last few days. 
HORIIWORMS ( Protoparcc spp. ) 
P. S. Charaberlin (June 22); Emergence of P. sexta J'okan. has 
been retarded by extremely dry weather, in Gadsden County. 
Infestations in May and June were less than normal. 
A. C. Morgan, J. U. Gilmore, and J. Milam (June 22): The 
moths of P. se xta and P. quinque l aculata Haw. are more numerous 
than usual at this season, at Clarksville. 
CORN ROOT WE3W0RM ( Crambus cali^inosellus Clem. ) 
C. R. Willey (June 19): Specimens were received today from 
Holston with a statement that tobacco growers in that section 
are having serious trouble with a 
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have been received this spring that were damaging corn. This 
pest is troublesome in southwe stern Virginia nearly always when 
corn or tobacco is planted on spring- plowed fallow land. 
S. Marcovitch (June 3): C. caliginoscllus is reported attack- 
ing tobacco and corn in eastern Tennessee and damaging 20 to 40 
per cent of the crop. The larvae appear to be more abundant and 
injurious than at any time in the past ten .years. 
TOBACCO PLE4 BEETLE ( Epitrix parvula Pab. ) 
rth Carolina Z. P. Metcalf (May 30): The tobacco flea beetle is very abundant. 
A. C. Morgan, J. U. Gilmore, and J. Milam (June 22): This in- 
sect is doing considerable damage to newly set tobacco at Clarksville. 
T03ACC0 THRIPS ( Prankliniella fusca Hinds) 
P. S. Chamberlin (June 20): Tobacco thrips are reported in 
Gadsden County attacking cigar wrapper tobacco crops. 
