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sas 
Kansas 
J. ¥. McColloch (June 20): The striped cucumber "beetle has "been 
very prevalent this year on melons and cucumber in the counties 
of Graham, Jewell , Ellsworth, Republic, Lyon, Johnson, and 
ford. 
SPOTTED CUCUMBER BEETLE ( Diabrotic a duodec im punctata Fab. ) 
J. 17. McColloch (June 22): On June 6 the beetles were reported 
injuring melons at Tanganoxie, and on June lU injuring carta - 
loupes at Spring Kill. 
Mississippi 
and 
Alabama 
SQUASH 
SQUASH BORER (Eelittia satyriniformis Eubn. ) 
K. L. Cocker ham (June 17): Helittia sat. vrini forms continues to 
be one of the most serious of truck-crop pests this spring. It 
has been found injuring squash in Lincoln, Pearl River, . . 
Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson Counties, Hiss., and Motile Com 
Ala. "Thile squash is not, perhaps, our principal crop, yet 
some are found in every garden. Many cases run arcund ICO per 
cent infestation. 
Indiana 
ONIOJS 
ONI OF MAGGOT ( Hylemyia an tiQua Meig. ) 
J. J. Davis (Jv.no 2k): The onion r:a — ot has been reported as 
damaging onions the past month from Elkhart and Ashley. 
BEET 5 
South 
Carolina 
STRIPED BLISTER BEETLE (Bpicauta y it tat a F a b. ) 
J. 0. Pepper (Hay 2o) : Specimens of this insect were received 
from Awenden in Georgetown County, and reported as seriously 
juring the foliage of beets. 
SVEET POTATO 
TORTOISE BEETLES (Cassidinae) 
South J. 0. Pepper (Hay 30) : Specimens of tortoise beetle larvae 
Carolina have been received from ".'oodruff and reportedas damaging sweet- 
potato plants that had been transplanted. 
Mississippi R. "7. Harned (June 22): The following tortoise shell beetles 
were reported as attacking sweet potatoes : Eetriona bivittata 
Say June 2, at Kendrick; Chel ymoruha cassidea Eab. Lay 27, at 
Yazoo City and A. & h. College; Jonthonota ni gripes Oliv. June 
2 at Kendrick. 
