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TURKI? APHID ( Rh opal o si phum pseudobrassicae Davis) 
L. W. Brannon (May 10): This species is doing serious injury to 
turnips in this locality (Birmingham). Truckers in this district 
are plowing fields of turnips under because .this insect has dam- 
aged them to the extent that they are unmarketable. 
CABBAG-E CURCULIO ( Ceutorhynchus rapae Gyll.) 
L, T7. Brannon (May 23): This species was found feeding on mustard 
and turnips in this locality (Birmingham) on May 3. This insect 
has not been noticed in this vicinity for the past several years. 
The insects were not very numerous. 
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ONION MAGGOT ( Hylemyia ant iO.ua Meig. ) 
R. G. Palmer (May 2): Onion maggot puparia brought indoors are 
dmerging nicely and show less than 50 per cent parasitism. Out- 
doors the flies will provably start to emerge this week. 
B. G. Cook (May 2): From Genesee , TZyoming County, it was reported 
that the warm weather of the last two days had brought out the 
first of the onion maggot flies. Three r?ere found in one of the 
cages on the 30th. 
C. R. Crosby and assistants (May 21): Flies are emerging in 
large numbers. The first eggs were found on May 17- Growers were 
advised to make their first application of 2 per cent Bordeaux 
oil on May 23. Last year considerable damage occurred to onions 
on muck land near Cherry Creek. This year growers are applying 
control measures. Many eggs have been laid, and most of the lar- 
vae of the first generation have hatched. 
Don C. Mote (April): Onion maggot adults were first observed in 
the field on April 13. 
IMBRICATED SNOUT BEETLE ( Epicaerus imbricatus Say) 
R. T7. Harned (May 2k): Specimens of the imbricated snout beetle, 
Epicaerus i mbr i c a tu s . wer e collected on onions and young bunch 
beans at Lucedale, April 15. 
S V.EET POTATO 
riRGUS TORTOISE BEETLE ( Chelymorpha ca sside a Fab.) 
R. ";'. Harned (May 2k): Specimens of tortoise beetles belonging 
to the species Chelymorpha cassidea v-ere collected on sweet po- 
tato plants at Learned, Hinds County, recently. The correspond 
wrote: "They are working in' droves and are eating the pot a to 
plants entirely up as they go." 
