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_,...... TOMATO .PSYLLID (Paratrioza cocker el li Sulc) 
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Colorado. . G. n. List (September 20): The injury from the -potato psyllid be- 
came more apparent as the season advanced. In -previous years the injury 
■ been confined mostly to the early potatoes, hut this season many of 
the late ones are seriously damaged. A recent survey has shown it to 
exist in all sections of the State. 
RING- LEGGED EARWIG ( Anisolahis annul it>es L ucas) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (September 23): Irish potatoes infested were received 
from Hazlehurst, Copiah Co., on September 15. 
BEANS 
MEXICAN BEAN BEETLE ( Spilachna corrupt a Muls. ) 
Maine. C. R. Eaip-ps (Se-ptember 22): The- Mexican bean beetle is Moderately 
abundant. 
New Hampshire. L. C. Glover (September 22): The Mexican bean beetle has been 
reported from 39 towns. .Tne injury was severe in many cases. The towns 
reported range from the east to the west boundary of the State and from 
the south boundary north to Alton in the east center of the State and Leb- 
anon on the west boundary. 
Connecticut, B. H. Walden, (September 24): Tne Mexican bean beetle is very 
abundant. 
New York. N. Y. State Agr. Expt. Sta. (September* 1): The Mexican bean bee- 
tle is moderately abundant in the western -part of the State (Chautauqua 
and Erie Counties). 
Pennsylvania. J. N. Knull (September 1): The Mexican bean beetle is very abun- 
dant. 
Virginia. H. G. Walker (September 27): T^e Mexican bean % eetle is from moderat 
ly to very abundant in Norfolk. 
North Carolina. W. A. Thomas (September 15): There seems to be considerably 
more activity on cowpeas this season than heretofore. There has been a 
very heavy infestation in the Chadbourn area, and with the dying off of 
the spring and summer crops of beans, the insects seem to have transferred 
much more readily to c'owpeas than heretofore. The injury to cowpeas, 
while not serious, is more or less conspicuous and has resulted in many of 
the growers reporting this injury. 
South Carolina. A. Lutkcn (September 24): Tae Mexican bean beetle is moderate- 
ly abundant in general. 
Georgia. 0. I. Snaop (August 30): Brans in a large field at Mnrshallvilla 
were damaged considerably. Tne insect was more abundant than usual in this 
locality during the late summer. 
