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New York. N, Y. State Coll. of Agr. News Letter (June 19): Thrips are beginning 
to appear on onions in Suffolk County. 
Georgia. 0. I. Snapp (June 19): This thrips is more abundant than usual a.t 
Fort Valley and has done considerable damage to vegetables, especially snap 
beans. Tlie weather has been very hot and dry — favorable for thrips. 
YELLOW i/OOLLY BEAR ( Diacrisia virginica Fab.) 
Tennessee. G. M. B^ntley (June): Larvae were reported as feeding on leaves of 
onions in Grundy County, June 3. 
EGGPLANT 
EGGPLANT LACEBUG ( Gargaphia solani Heid.) 
New Jersey. T. J. Headlee and P.. C. Burdctte (June 23): The eggplant lacebug is 
abundant, 
Maryland. E. N. Cory (June 22): Eggplant , lacebug s are attaching eggplant at 
Hagerstown. 
EGGPLANT FLEA BEETLE (Epitrix fuscula Crotch) 
Iowa. K. E. Jaques (June): Eggplant flea beetles are very destructive in several 
parts of the State. 
SWEET P OTATO 
TORTOISE 3EETLES (Cassidinae) 
New Jersey. T. J. Headlee and H. C. Burdette (June 23): The sweetpotato gold 
bugs (all species) are very abundant. 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (June 21): Tortoise beetles .^re very abundant at 
Bragg s on sweet potatoes. 
Mississippi, C. Lyle (June 22): Tortoise beetles, Chelymornhia cassidea Fab., 
were reported moderately abundant on sreetpotato plants at Orange Grove in 
Jackson County on May 29, and at Brookhaven in Lincoln County on June 3. 
(June 22): A correspondent at Philadelphia, Neshoba County, reported a heavy 
infestation of tortoise beetles belonging to the species Metriona bivitta,ta 
Say in & sweetpotato field on June 21. 
STRA.7BERRY 
STRA'-TBERRY LEAF ROLLER ( Ancylus com^t ana Fro el.) 
Michigan. R. Hutson (June 17) : : Present in unusual numbers on strawberries at 
Lansing and in the surrounding country. Several severe infest-tions upon 
new raspberry plantings have been noted in the same locality. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (May 20 - June 20): Reports were received from Thayer 
■and Buffalo Counties starting that strawberries were being attacked. 
