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" GREEN JUNE BEETLE ( Cotinls nitida L. ) 
South Carolina. N. Allen (March 19) : In making a survey of tobacco "beds in 
portions of Marion, Horry, Florence, and Williamsburg Counties, it was 
found that larvae had injured some beds on 10 of the 21 farms visited. 
In some instances, nearly half of fin infested bed was injured. Injury 
was found only on those bed sites that had been used for more than a 
year. 
TOBACCO BUDWORM ( Heliothis virescens F. ) 
Florida. F. S. Chamberlin (March 31) ' Larvae are very abundant on newly 
set tobacco plants in Gadsden County. 
COTTON INSECTS 
BOLL WEEVIL ( Anthonomus grandis Boh. ) 
Georgia. T. L. Bissell (March 2b): One boll weevil was jarred from peach 
at Pomona, in central Georgia. 
BOLLWORM ( Heliothis obsoleta F. ) 
Texas. K. ?. Swing and R. L. McGn.fr (March): Two bollworm moths were 
collected on corn in the vicinity of Robs ton on March 11, and five 
iaoths were collected in a field of alfalfa and clover at Wharton on 
March 15. Although no bollworm eggs were found, they were probably 
being laid on corn in these localities. 
PINK BOLLWORM ( Pectinophor a gossypiella Saund. ) ■ •' 
Texas. A. J. Chapman (March): Several pink bollworm pupae were found in 
February in cotton bolls left on the surface of the ground at Presidio. 
Moths began emerging during the first half of Iviarch, which is unusually 
early for this locality. 
COTTON FLEA HOPPER ( Psallus seriatus Reut.) 
Texas. F. L. Thomas (March 2l) : The first flea hopper nymphs have been 
found as far north as Falls County, in central Texas.- No adults have 
been taken on screen traps in Brazos County. 
Texas. K. P. Ewing and R. L. McGarr (March): Nymphs hatched from over- 
wintering flea hopper eg : ;-s in hibernation cages at Port Lavaca on 
February 12. On the same date first- and second-instar nymphs were 
collected on croton in Calhoun County. Adults were collected on 
croton during the week of March 5. This is the earliest we have ever 
found adults in eastern Texas. 
