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to the sugar-beet crop in most beet-growing areas. The 
damage is not uniform, however, as some acres are sufferi 
only moderate injury, while others ar^ quite seriously : " " 
MUSHROOM 
Pennsylvania 
SPRINGTAILS (Collembola) 
C. a. Thomas (September 22): Springtails ( Achorutes armatum 
ITic . ) and ( Linidocyrtus cyaneus Tullb.) have caused considerable 
injury to growing spawn in mushroom houses in Chester County 
this fall. 
.Louisiana 
' " SUOAP-CAIS 
SUGARCANE BORER ( Biatraea saccharalis lab.) 
W. S. Hinds (August; 29) : The sugarcane borer is unusually 
scarce.- No field has been found with more than 10 p^r cent 
of stalks now showing borer burrows. Conditions of general 
infestation will average only about 2 per cent of stalks 
bored in f ieldsyejxamined August 25 to/ 2j^£ Borer eggs are 
very difficult to find and nearly all /were parasitized by 
Trichogramma.. : ■ ■■ 
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Florida 
A CICADA ( Tibicen davisi Sm. & C-rfeb.) 
A correction: The nymphs attacking .asparagus p lumosus 
at Jupiter, Fla., were incorrectly associated with the adults 
of Biceroprocta vjridifascia Walk. (Insect Test Survey Bulletin 
Vol. 10, p. 309). Adults of Tibicen ck;--jsi era i - in 
numbers during eariy September. Nymphs and nj >hal shells 
v/ere determined as this genus by '<■'. T. Davis. 
J. R. ./at son (September 24): The females of Tibicen davisi 
have been emerging in' large numbers in the "ferneries" in 
Jupiter, and are depositing eggs in the timbers and laths of 
the "shade." 
Vermont 
Connecticut 
FALL "... ( H;-p/- -utria cunea Drury) 
H. L. Bailey (September 23): Ik fall webworm was generally 
abundant throughout the State. 
. . - . Sappe (September 34): hires e.rc very abun&ent in t 
eastern part of the Stat , ich moi i tit than i.. 
central or western parts of the St; t . 
