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Missouri 
Oklahoma 
Mississippi 
Louisiana 
Idaho 
L. Has email (May 23): „ Oqcasional specimens of the Colorado,, 
potato beetle have been fouticl.on potatoes at Columbia since" 
the first of the month. 1 "''.''" '•' 
C. F. Stiles (May 21 ) :' The .Colorado potato beetle is very 
abundant over the eastern three-fourths of the State, 
F. A. Smith (May 22): The Colorado potato beetles are very 
bad on potatoes in Tate County.,- > 
W. E„ Hinds (May 25): The Colorado potato beetle is scarce 
•on potatoes. ~'-~ ' ; 
C. lakeland (May 19): The Col'orado potato beetle is very 
abundant on early potatoes and despositing eggs, at Lewiston. 
North Carolina 
Virginia 
Maryland 
Delaware 
California 
TOBACCO FLEA .BEETLE ( Epitrix parvula Fab.) 
W. A. Thomas (May 11 )j This flea, beetle has been prevalent 
for the last few' days on most' young tomato plants in this 
vicinity, some of the plants having been completely destroyed 
by their attacks. ', " 
STRIPED ELEA BEETLE ( Phyllotreta vittata Fab.) 
H. G. Walker ■ (May 25) : Flea beetles are comm6n in the 
Tidewater region and are exceptionally abundant in Accomac. County 
' on- the Eastern Shore. ; .'"."' 
P. D. Sanders (May 27): This flea beetle is more injurious 
to potatoes on the Eastern Shore than usual.. . . ■ 
POTATO TUBER WORM ( Phthorimaea operculella ' Zeller) 
L. A.-' Stearns (April 21) i Specimens' were taken from stored 
potatoes at College Farm, Agricultural Experiment Station, Newark, 
i .These moths emerged from April 14 to 18. . (Determined by A. Busck) 
'Monthly News Letter, Los Angeles County Agricultural Commissioner 
Vol. 13, No. 4, (April 15): Infestations of the tuber no th in 
some sections of Los Angeles County have been particularly bad 
this year. In nonirrigated : fields the pest has been most active. 
"More than twelve hundred lugs of new potatoes have been re- 
jected in the- Los Angeles wholesale' markets 'since April 15." 
Indiana 
CABBAGE : ■' ■;;; ;; 
IMPORTED CABBAGE WORM ( Pjeris rapae L.) 
J. J. Davis (May 26): The cabbage worm was abundant in cabbage 
at Shoals May 13 and destructive to dauliflower at Greenfield, 
May 23. 
