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SUGARCANE BEETLE (Suetheola rugiceps Lee.) 
Louisiana. B. A. Ostcrberger and C. 0. Eddy (April): Very active in 
Saint Mary Parish. The adults are feeding on sugarcane and corn. In 
the Bayou Teche section in some fields fully 80 p>orcent of the original 
sugarcane plants have been destroyed. No reports of this pest have 
yet cone in from northern Louisiana. 
J. W. Ingram and L. J. Charpcntier (April 23): At Franklin beetle 
injury is the heaviest since 1933* Injury reached its peak about the 
middle of April. Recent rain in the section suffering heaviest injury 
has been of benefit in increasing suckering of injured plants. 
SUGARCANE R00TST0CK WEEVIL (Anacentrinus subnudus Buchanan) 
Louisiana. B. A. Osterberger (March 30) > In '.Saint John the Baptist and 
East Baton Rouge Parishes this insect has been noticed on several 
occasions moving about on tho ground in sugarcane fields, as if mi- 
grating from trash in middles to the growing cane. 
