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t MOTTLED TORTOISE BEETLE ( Chi ri da guttata Oliv.) 
Mississippi H. Dietrich (May 23) : A tortoise "beetle, was' found on May 5 
in some numbers and ovipositing on, sweetpotatoes in bed at 
Lucedale. 
..BEETS 
Utah 
Utah 
Utah 
■ . BEET LEAEHOPPER ( Eutettix - tenellus Baker) 
G. E. Knowlton; (May 16) I; The beet leaf hopper is now distrib- 
uted throughout most of the sugar-beet .growing area of northern 
Utah, and considerable injury from curly-top is anticipated. • 
SUGAR-BEET ROOT MAGGOT ( Tetanops aldrichi Hendel) 
G. E. Knowlton (May .18)-.: Adult flies are now abundant in the 
sugar-beet fields at Arnalga, Benson,. Cornish, .a#d Trenton, in 
Cache Valley. A few have been observed at Hooper, in Weber 
County. 
HOP ELEA BEETLE ( Psylliodes punctulata Melsh,) 
G. E. Knowlton (May 14) J Hop flea beetles are damaging young 
sugar beets in some- fields 'at Fielding- and .Richmond, and are 
present in all "beet fields, examined .in northern Utah, hut the 
damage is much less generally than during most years. • 
Florida 
Kentucky 
Florida 
TOBACCO 3UDW0SM ( Heliothis virescens Eab.) 
E. S. Chamberlin (May IS): The tobacco budworm is not so 
abundant as usual at tiii.s season of the year. The rains, however, 
have been sufficient to allow emergence of adults. 
T03ACC0 ELEA BEETLE ( Epitrix parvula Eab.) 
I. A. Price (May 25):' The .tobacco flea beetle is doing mucli 
damage to tobacco in the bed, ;,-...;.•< ... , 
GARDEN ELEA HOPPER (Halticus citri Ashm.)- 
E. S. Chamberlin (May ll): H. citri appears. to be more 
abundant than usual and is causing some damage to the lower 
leaves of shade tobacco. 
