SERIIS5J) FLEA BEETLE (Phil lotreta v ittata Fab ) 
K. L. Cockerhan (October -19) : The striped flea beetle ioiu.._ ■ 
serious damage to turnips in Bi'ioxi during September end October. 
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:.7.1!ITRCPICAL AfthTnJCBl! ( Prodenia eridania Cram. ) 
a. w. Harned (October 13) J Serious injury to one corner of a 
sweet -potato field near Vicksturg was r ewer ted cn October 13, 
"py the semi tropical arrayworm, ^"lom^ges eridani a. 
SO'UTHSBI FIlllD-CROf INSECTS 
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BOLL wSZVIL (.Jithonomus grand ! g Boh.) 
PIliK U0L1- 'tOB?.i ( Pectinouhora eQ ssypiej.la Saund.) 
I. Jackson, 4merica» Consul (October 1C): Due to the great 
amount of dajaage by the boll weevil and pink boll worm, the 1927 
cottcn crop of the Laguna region, which in June was placed at 
90,000 bales, is nor; estimated' at not more than 7 3", 000 bales. 
& certain ainount of damage is .-.always expected in the laguna 
from the pink boll worm, but the boll weevil as a rule does but 
little damage. This year, ho never, both ere exceedingly bad 
and the damage being Thought by them -ill anoint to at least 
30 per cent of the crop. 
BOLL V;CB:: (hel iethis ebscleta Jab.) 
C. H. Brannon (October 27): The counts iige'nt of Halifax Counts- 
reports under date of October 21 "In the field ahere they were 
found there was an average of at least t.;o bolls per stalk that 
were ruined, and the built; that th:. s vor.a ruined vjere the ones 
we had saved from the -»c3vil by dusting . " 
£ ST. ilorrill (Ccto^r 2): following "a thorough clean-up of in- 
fested wild cottcn plants in the Y-Aui Valley as ""ell as the only 
field of cultivated cotton in the valley in 132a, no infestation 
of the I927 ^rop r;as - discovered until late in September in fields 
kept under close ' surveillance during the season. Z'o damage possi- 
ble to the 19^7 crop. 
GCT'.XiT 13^ ".'.'Oil!.: (alabrma ar . rills ce.a Hubn. ) 
3. A. Porter (October 22): "rait in this section has been prac - 
tically uninjured \& the moth of this species. Cue yo-er re- 
ported that only a few moths of the cotton leaf worm were present 1 
