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Press Bulletin Texas iigri cultural Experiment Station, College 
Station (April 15) : The numbers of cotton flea hoppers which 
have emerged or hatched from lots of ICO plants each from 
first emergence up to above date, inclusive, are given below. 
Mexico 
South 
Carolina 
Goatweed 22,018 
Cotton 136 
Ragweed 330 
Horsenettle 222 
Bittervreed 633 
Careless weed 2kS 
SALT MARSH CATERPILLAR ( Estigmene acraea Drury) 
A. W. Morrill (May 20): This insect, which has heen Quite de- 
structive on cotton for two years past, seems to have disap- 
peared in the Ya c iui Valley. 
APEHD£E 
C. 0. Eddy (May 19) : Numerous in .certain fields before dry 
weather of May arrived in the Piedmont section. 
TOBACCO 
WIBEWORMS (ELa t er idae ) 
North J. 'ST. Tenhet (May 6): Mumerous complaints of wire worm, damage 
Carolina at Chadbourn to tobacco are received daily. In some fields the 
damage varies from 50 per cent to 90 per cent. In one or two 
fields under observation, resetting has been necessary four 
times- "ireworms attacking tobacco seem almost entirely to be 
Mrmn Arepidius sp. 
South 
Carolina 
North 
Carolina 
CUTI70RMS (Noctuidae) 
J. 0. Pepper (May 9): It has "been reported that a 5 -a ere field 
of tobacco plants at Hodges has been destroyed by cutworms in 
G-reenwood County. 
TOBACCO FLEA BEETLE (Ep itrix parvula Fab.) 
Z. P. Metcalf (May 2k): The tobacco flea beetle is not especi- 
ally destructive to tobacco beds this year, but owing to the 
dry season it has been especially bad on the tobacco trans- 
planted in the field. 
Florida 
F. S. Chamber 1 in (May lS): adults of the spring brood '-ere 
first noticed on May 11. Infestations appear to be light and 
little damage has resulted thus far. 
