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Georgia. 0. I. Snapp (March 2k) • Aphids are rather abundant and are caus- 
ing considerable damage to 5»000 cabbage plants set out in a field 
near Port Valley, central Georgia. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (March 2k) : A correspondent at Columbia, Marion 
County, reported serious injury to spinach. L. J. Goodgame reported 
severe infestations on cabbage near Aberdeen. 
HARLEQUIN BUG ( Murgantia histrionica Hahn) 
Virginia. H. G. Walker and L. D. Anderson (March 25) : A few bugs were 
observed feeding on collards on March 23 at Norfolk. 
North Carolina. W. A. Thomas' (March 19) : Thousands of adults suddenly 
appeared on seeding mustard and cabbage at Chadbourn early in the 
week ending March 19. By the last of the week most of the seed 
stalks were dead or dying. They seemed to prefer the seed stalks 
to the foliage of younger plants growing in the same field. 
Oklahoma. C. P. Stiles (March 25): The harlequin cabbage bug is quite 
numerous throughout the southeastern. part of the State. 
SQUASH 
SQUASH BUG '(Anasa tristis Deg. ) 
Iowa. H. E. Jaques (March 2l): This pest seems to have passed the 
winter successfully in rather large numbers. 
Nebraska. m. H. Swenk (March 21): A Douglas County correspondent re- 
ported the squash bug wintering in numbers in the feathery nest ma- 
terial of his martin house. 
Kansas. H. H. Bryson (March 29): Squash bugs were reported to be numerous 
in the vicinity of Manhattan. 
TUXNIP 
TURNIP APHID ( Rh opal os i phum pseudo-brass ica e Davis) 
Louisiana. P. K. Harrison (March 2k) : This aphid is becoming luss abun- 
dant at Baton Rouge, owing to the reduction by natural enemies. 
SPINACH 
GREEN PEACH APHID ( Myzus persicae Sulz.) 
Virginia. H. G. Walker and L. D. Anderson (March 25): Spinach aphids are 
rather abundant in a great many fields of early spinach at Norfolk but 
are rather scarce in the younger spinach. A fungous disease has killed 
from 50 to over 75 percent of the aphids in some of the fields. 
