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toes; adjoining fields were lightly to moderately infested. 
Maryland. E. IT. Cory and Staff (July): Tortoise beetles ( Chclymorpha cassidea 
Fab.)are especially abundant. 
Indiana. H. 0. Deay (July 25): Tortoise beetles were reported to be doing severe 
damage to sweetpotatoes in Vincennes July 2. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (July 20): Specimens of '±. bivittata and Chi ri da .gat tat a 
Oliv. were received from Oxford on June 30 with a report that these beetles 
were abundant on sweetnotato plants. 
S^EETPOTATO wlilTSFLY ( Bemisia inconspicua Quaint.) 
Florida. J. H. TTatson (July 26): The sweetpotato whitefly (B. inconspicua ) is 
attacking sweetpotatoes in Alachua, and other counties. 
STRAWBERRY 
STRA.73ERRY LE4I HOLLER ( Ancylis comptana Froel. ) 
North Carolina. 77. A. Thomas (July 18): VThile examining strawberry plants at 
Chadbourn for false chinch bugs it was observed that an unusual number of 
strewberr*' leaf rollers had developed on the plants. Panal s'ans were very 
abundant about these plants and a fev. adults v. ere observed. 
Nebraska. D. 3. "7helan (July 20): The peak of abundance of the second-brood 
larvae of the strawberry leaf roller was from July 12 to 25. The first pupa 
of this generation forced on July 20. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryscn (July 20): The strawberry leaf roller is reported as 
causing severe damage in the vicinity of Topeka and also is causing damage 
in eastern Doniphan County. 
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BEET !7ESwOBM (Loxostege sticticalis L. ) 
North Dakota. J. A. Munro and assistants (July): The beet webworm was quite 
abundant in Burke, ?fountrail, Bottineau, Williams, and McKenzie Counties dur- 
ing the third week in the month. (Abstract, J.A.H. ) 
E. D. Butcher (July 11): In Benson County, Saturday, I saw some damage to 
flax by the sugar-beet webworm. It had cleaned out the Russian thistles and 
had then attacked the flax; the infestation had taken about 15 acres and ran 
about 3 caterpillars to each yard of flax row. I think all of thorn were 
younger than the last instar. 
Colorado. G. M. List (July 23): The second-brood beet webworm moths and alfalfa 
webworm (L. commixtali s 7alk. ) are moderately abundant in northern- .Colorado 
at this time. 
Utah. G-. F. Knowlton (Jul- 21): The sugar beet webworm is doing serious damage 
in many parts of Utah. Beets and alfalfa are most seriously affected. Con- 
