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Mississippi 
Mississippi 
BAND ED CUCUMBER BEETLE (D iabrotica bait eat a Lee. ) 
K. L. Cockerham (June 18): Considerable numbers of these beetles 
are seen in fields of sweet potatoes and injury to the leaves 
can be noticed. 
SY7EET-F0TAT0 PLEA BEETLE ( Chaetocnema confinis Cr. ) 
R. W. Earned (June 22): Specimens of the sweet-potato flea bee- 
tle collected on sweet-potato plants have been received from 
Kendrick. 
Indiana 
REUBAR3 
RHUBARB CUF.CULIO ( Lixus concavus Say) 
J. J. Davis (June 2): The rhubarb curculio ^as reported injur- 
ing rhubarb at Rochester and Spencerville the past month. 
RADISH 
Indiana 
CABBAGE I AC-GOT (H fflcmy ia_ brassicae Bouche) 
J. J. Davis (June 24): The cabbage or radish maggot damaged rad- 
ishes at Sheridan June 14, 
Kansas 
FALSE CHINCH BUG (Nvsius erJcae Schill. ) 
J. W. McColloch (June 5): Severe damage to radish and turnips 
reported from a truck garden .at Hays. 
Louisiana 
Louis irna 
PEPPER 
TOMATO "ORM ( Protoparce sexta Johns. ) 
T. E. Holloway and W. E, Haley (May 25): Horn worms, probably 
Phi e go thontius sexta , were found injuring pepper plants near 
New Orleans. 
YELLO"- STRIPED ARMY'TORM (Prod enia ornithogalli Guen. ) 
T. S. Hollowly and '<". E. Haley (May 25): The cotton cutworm, 
Prodenia ornithogalli . was found attacking pepper plants near 
New Orleans. Various larval stages up to last-instar lar- 
vae were present. As damage from cutworms is feared follow- 
ing the floods, in the Mississippi Valley, these records may 
be of interest. M. M. High identified Prodenia ornithogalli 
in its various stages. 
