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TEUCK.CROP INSECTS 
WHITE-FRINGED BEETLE ( Naupactus leucoloma Boh.) 
Alabama. R. A. Sheals (July 30): Reported for the first time at the following 
localities: Monroeville, Monroe County, and Conecuh County, Doth in 
south-central Alabama; and Mobile, Mobile County, 
Mississippi. R. A. Sheals (July 30): First record of the beetle at the follow- 
ing places: Pass Christian and Gulf port, Harrison County, on the Gulf; 
and Bolton, Hinds County, just south of west-central Mississippi. 
Louisiana. R. A. Sheals (July 30): An extension of the area infested by this 
insoct around New Orleans has been reported. 
BLISTER 3EETLES (Meloidao) 
South Carolina. J. G. Watts (July): One report of damage by the striped blister 
beetle ( Epicauta vittata F. ) at Blackville, southwestern South Carolina, 
on soybeans. A few specimens taken in a trap light on several occasions 
during the month. 
Indiana. J, J. Davis (July 26): Several species are destructively abundant in 
vegetable and flower gardens in many sections of the State. 
Kentucky. M. L. Didlake (July 25): Blister beetles reported as follows: On 
tomatoes at Madisonville and at Dixon on July 11; on cotton at Murray, 
and on roses and shrubs at Louisville on July 25, all localities in the 
western half of the State. 
Tennessee. G. M. Bent ley (July 23): On July 9 E. cinerea Forst, was found doing 
damage to Irish potatoes in Greenfield, Weakley County. Seventy-five 
percent of the foliage was destroyed. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (July 25): In southern Mississippi a heavy infestation 
of E. vittata reported on eggplants at Sumrall, while in Lauderdale 
County no injury to cultivated crops noted although beetles were abundant. 
Specimens of E. lemniscata E. sent from Hernando, northwestern corner of 
Mississippi, on June 23, and reported as stripping leaves from garden 
plants. Specimens of the latter beetle collected on soybeans on July 6 
at Ruleville, Sunflower County, in the Delta. 
Wisconsin. E. L. Chambers (July 23): Black blister beetles (E. pennsvlvanica 
Dog.) doing serious injury to alfalfa, potatoes, and corn in spots all 
over the State, and especially abundant in the heavily infested grass- 
hopper areas. 
Minnesota. A. G. Ruggles and assistants. (July 12): Blister beetles numerous in 
several parts of the truck-growing section of Hennepin County, south- 
eastern Minnesota. 
