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S'.VEET POTATO 
WHITE-LINED SPHINX ( Celeria lineata Fab.) 
R. W. Harned (June 24): What are possibly the larvae of the 
white-lined sphinx, were found injuring sweet potato plants 
at Lucedale on May 8. 
ARGUS TORTOISE BEETLE ( Chelymorpha . cassidea Fab.) 
R. W. Harned (June 24): Larvae and pupae of the tortoise 
beetle were collected on May 24 on sweet potato plants at 
3iloxi, where some injury had been done. 
SWEET-POTATO LEAF BEETLE ( lypophorus viridicyaneus Cr. ) 
3. 3. Fulton (June 25): Feeding abundantly on leaves of 
sweet potato in Currituck County. It has apparently caused 
injury in previous years. 
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Pennsylvania 
RHUBARB ■ 
RHUBARB CURCULIO ( Lixus concavus Say) 
S. W. Mendenhall (June 10): I found a very serious outbreak 
of the rhubarb curculio in Columbus; the plantings were nearly 
destroyed. 
1 iUSHROOMS 
C. A. Thomas (June 22): The following insects have been com- 
mon and somewhat injurious in mushroom houses in Chester County 
this soring: Lepidocyrtus cyaneus Tullb., Achorutes armatus 
Sic, tyroglyphids and other mites, and sciarid flies. 
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Florida 
SOUTHER II FIELD-CROP INSECTS 
TOBACCO 
TOBACCO FLEA BEETLE ( Epitrix parvula Fab.) 
C. E. Brannon (June 20): The flea beetle has seriously in- 
jured tobacco in most sections owing to the delayed; cool 
spring. 
F. S. Chemberlin (June 24): The third brood of the flea 
beetle is very abundant in tobacco fields -^here control prac- 
tices have been slighted. Poison applications have prevented 
serious damage in most cases. 
