i MIDI'S 
■STBIESD yUpyiJBBB BEaiTiai . (Pdabrotica vittata Fab.) 
Minnesota ■ A. G. Ruggles (October .10) : - The striped cucumber beetle is 
very abundant on cucumber and squasr on the University farm. 
Iowa H. E. Jaques (October 25): The striped cucumber beetle is 
particularly abundant in northern Iowa. 
SPOTTED. SBOinffiisiH BEETLE ( Diabrotica duodecimpunctata Fab.) 
Connecticut "■. L. : .Britton (October 23): The spotted cucumber beetle 
is reported -as .being more abundant as compared with last month 
on flowers of dahlia, late gladiolus, and other plants at 
Eamden and Westbrook. 
Florida J. R. '.7a t son (October 20): The spotted cucumber beetle is 
very abundant . 
North Carolina Z. P. Metcalf (October 25) ; , The spotted, cucumber beetle has 
been a serious pest of roses this year in spite of the fact 
that the larvae did practically no damage in the State. This 
latter fact. is correlated, we believe, with the very dry 
weather at the height of. its breeding season. 
UELON nORM ( Diaphania hyalinata L.) 
Mississippi H. Dietrich (October 20): The melon worm end the squash vine 
borer ( Mejittia sa tyriniiormis Ebn.) together have completely 
killed an acre of squash planted ior fall harvest in George 
County. . Adults of the melon worm were present in large numbers 
en October 18. 
MELON ,4PEID ( Aphis -sossvpii Glov.) 
Mississippi C-. L. 3ond (October 16): Melon aphids are abundant on late 
melons in the Moselle vicinity. 
SQUASK BUG ( ..nasa tristis DeG.) 
Idaho The News Letter (Idaho University), Vol. 14, No. 3 (October): 
It has been found that the squash bug is well established over 
a wide ares, in Payette and Gem Counties and that the infestation 
is so extensive that eradication is not - feasible. It is 
probable that it occurs also in adjoining counties. (Claude 
Wake land) 
S U^SH BEETLE ( irjicchna borealis Fab.) 
South Carolina ?. K. Harrison (September 28): The squash lady-bird beetle is 
reported on pumpkin and gourd at Fairfax, the heaviest infestation 
on pumpkin. 
