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considerable damage in some fields at Hooper. The affected 
"beets wilt "badly during the heat of the day and the more seri- 
ously affected ones die. Many of the beets are dead, leaving 
noticeable ships in the rows. At Hooper many of the maggots 
are half to full grown. At Cornish the flies are abundant and 
mating. 
SPINACH LEAF MINER ( Pea'omya i hyoscyami Fans. ) 
Weekly News Letter, N. Y. St. Coll. Agri. , June 11: Erie 
County (M. N. Taylor): The spinach leaf miner has started to 
work on spinach, and growers carrying out the screening experi- 
ments have applied the cheesecloth, 
G-. F. Knowlton (June 6): The beet leaf miner is encountered 
in fields throughout the beet-growing areas of Utah but in 
such small members as to be causing practically no damage. 
S' ? SST POTATO 
SWEET-FOTATO FLEA BEETLE ( Chae to enema confinis Cr. ) 
Mississippi R. W. Earned (June 25): Flea beetles that were injuring 
sweet-potato plants at Nicholson on June 1, were received at 
this office and identified by Mr. J. M. Langston as Chaetoc- 
nema confinis. 
North Carolina 
Florida 
SOUTHERN FIELD-CROP INSECTS 
TOBACCO 
TOBACCO BUDWORM ( Hcliothis virescens Fab.) 
R. W. Leiby (June 23): Ta2 tobacco budworm seems to be unu- 
sually destructive this season. More tobacco has been poisoned 
than ever before. 
POTATO TUBER WORM ( Phthorimaea operculella Zell.) 
F. S, Chamberlin (June 6): Very few tobacco splitworms have 
been observed on tobacco in Gadsden County this season. 
North Carolina 
HORN WORMS (Fnl caethonti us sop.) 
R. W. Leiby (June 23): Horn worms are unusually destructive 
this season in the tobacco section of the Coastal Plain. 
