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Arizona. A. H. Caldwell (July 5)": The false chinch bug seems to be all over the 
State in great swarms, and has done damage to all green stuff bordering fields 
or lots of wild mustard. 
TARNISHED SLANT BUG ( Lygus -prat en sis L. ) 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. of Agr. , Weekly News Letter (July): The tarnished 
plant bug is doing considerable damage to potatoes in western New York. (Ab- 
stract, J.A.H. ) 
Michigan. R. Hutson (July 8): The tarnished plant bug is numerous in fields of 
celery at Decatur. 
APHIDS (Aphiidae) 
Wisconsin. E. L. Chambers and assistants (July): Aphids are more abundant than 
they have been for many years on all truck crops. (Abstract, J.A.H.) 
THRIPS (Thysanoptera) 
North Carolina. W. A. Thomas (July 20): These insects are extremely abundant 
in the blooms of snap beans at Clarendon. The beans have been blooming for 
several weeks and to date no fruit has been set. Whether this failure is 
due to prevailing dry weather or to the unusual abundance of thrips has not 
yet been determined. 
CRICKETS (Gryllidae) 
North Carolina. 77. A. Thomas (July 22): There is an unusual abundance of field 
crickets in the strawberry fields at Chadbourn. It is hard to determine 
just what damage is being done, as the runner- plants have not begun to de- 
velop to any extent. The principal injury seems to occur a little later in 
the season when the runners are chewed off from the mother plants before 
the young plant roots in the soil. These insects are reported as injuring 
tomato fruit, cantaloupe, and a few other fruits in this section. 
North Dakota. J. A. Munro and assistants (July): The black field cricket was 
reported as quite abundant over the greater part of the State. (Abstract, 
J.A.H.) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle and assistants (July): Crickets, species Anurogryllus 
muticus DeG. , have been injuring cotton in one community at Meridian, Lau- 
derdale County, and cotton and -oeanuts in Neshoba County. (Abstract, J.A.H.) 
CHANGA ( Scapteriscus vicinus Scudd. ) 
Texas. Mrs. E. L. Coker (May 10): One adult female collected May 10, 1932, on 
plants and flowers in Orangefield, Orange County. (Det. by A. N. Caudell) 
