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Minnesota. A. C-. Haggles (July 26): The "big "bronze blister beetle, Lyt ta nut- 
talli Say, is very abundant in the northern "part of. the State, destroying 
beans. : •■••;■.•••■. 
A. A. Gran6vsky (June 23): The ash-gray blister beetle, H. una color , ap- 
peared in very large numbers in a nev alfalfa field, also in cities, in- 
festing black locust, caragana hedges, and other leguminpus -olants. 
North Dakota. J. A. Hunro ; (July 18)': Nuttall.- 1 s blister beetle, L. nut t alii, . 
is generally distributed and causing severe injury to caragana and beans. 
Iov.'a. H. E. Jaques (July): Blister beetles, are very abundant in Floyd County. 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (July 18): Blister beetles are very abundant on 0- Too- 
Tan Beans at Hayleyville, corn" at .West Blocton, and tomatoes at Marion. 
Louisiana. P. X. Harrison (June 24): 23. lemniscata. Fab. is doing considerable 
damage to carrot and is also feeding on Amaranthus sp. 
Mississippi . C. Lyle and assistants (July): Blister beetles, including 22. 
vittata . and M. unicolor , have been reported as injuring soybeans and truck 
crops in scattered localities. 
Nebraska. D. B. Whelan (June 20 to July 20): In a potato field west of Bush- 
nell, Kimball County, the blister beetle Meloe inroressus Kby. was reported 
as doing damage about the middle of July. 
M. H. Swenk (June 20 to July 20): From several scattered counties in 
Nebraska, between Pawnee and Lincoln' Counties, the striped blister beetle 
, 23. . lemniscata ) was reported as abundant and injurious during the second 
week '"in' July. "'- - 
VEGETABLE WEEVIL ( Listroderes obliquus Gyll. ) 
Alabama. M. M. High (June 28): The following counties in Alabama have recent- 
ly been found infested with the vegetable weevil: Hale, Bibb, Shelby, 
Chilton, Elmore, Autauga, Lowndes, Monroe, and Perry. This makes 39 in- 
fested counties in Alabama. 
WESTERN SPOTTED CUCUMBER BEETLE ( Diabrotica soror Lee.) 
Oregon. D. C. Mote (July 23): Quite injurious to garden crops in various sec- 
tions of the Willamette Valley. (B. G. Thompson) 
FALSE CHINCH BUG ( Nysius ericae Schill.) 
North Carolina. W. A. Thomas (July 18): These insects have become extremely 
abundant on some fields of berries at Chadbourn during the past few weeks 
and are apparently inflicting serious injury. Two hundred and ninety- 
eight adults and nymphs were taken from a single hill of strawberries. 
Severol of the native weeds show a rather heavy infestation, principally 
of nymphs, at this time. 
Minnesota. C. S. Mickel (June 21): The false chinch bug is very abundant at 
Mankato, injiiriiig huckleberry. 
