Missouri. L. Haseman (September 22): Several complaints have "been received, but 
the pest is not so abundant in central Missouri as it was a year ago. 
Alabama. J. li. Robinson (October 20): The harlequin bug is moderately abundant at 
Aubun . . 
CABBAGE raflORM ( Hellula undalis ?aa. ) 
Mississippi. C. L~ r le (October 23): On September 23 a farmer near Starkville in 
Oktibbeha Coimt?.'- brought to this office specimens and reported that they had 
practicalljr destroyed his fall plantings of turnips, hale, collards, and ard. 
Louisiana. C. E. Smith, P. X. Harrison and Formal] Allen (October 23): This web- 
worm has been present in damaging; numbers on cole crops throughout October at 
Baton Rouge. 
OITIOITS 
02FI0IT THRIPS ( Thrips t abaci Lind. ) 
Colorado. 0. M. List (October): The dry warm season has 'jeen favorable for the 
onion thrips. It has done much more than the usual amount of damage in the 
western part of the State. The yield has been materially reduced in the 
counties of Mesa, Delta, and Montrose. 
ST7EETPQ7ATO 
SWEETPOTATO LEAF BEETLE ( Typophorus viridicvaneus Crotch) 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (October 20): If^e sweetpotato leaf beetle is very abun- 
dant at G-untersville, where it destroyed 80 percent of a 3-acre field of sweet- 
potatoes. 
STRAWBERRY 
STRAWBERRY L"^A? ROLLER (Ancvli_s comutar.a Fro el. ) 
Ohio. 3. W. Mendenhall (October 21): The strawberry leaf roller is very bad in 
strawberry plantations in Miami County and especially in the Brandt locality. 
This seems to be the third brood. 
MUSHROOMS 
SPPJNGTAILS (Col lembola) 
Pennsylvania. C. A. Thomas (October 21): Springtails have been very destructive 
to newly planted mushroom spawn this fall; probably the most of these entered 
the mushroom houses with the wet manure. Most of those dam;. the s"oawn 
have been determined ^oy Dr. ]Tolsom as a species of Proisotoma ver- close to 
P. thermophila Axels., perhaps a variet*' of that species. A slight amount of 
injury has been done in a couple of mushroom houses near Reading by 
Le Pi doc~ r r tus lanu^i no sus (G -.el. ) Tull., which ate quite large holes into the 
caps and stems of the -row! g mushrooms. T'is is the species that lias done 
considerable damage in nrevious "ears in mushroom houses at Barberton, Ohio. 
