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DlAMOND-BACKED MOTH ( PJutella maeulioennis Curt.) 
Mississippi R2 W. Horned (March 27): 7fes reported by D. W. Grimesas 
causing severe damage at certain places near Lei ana, Miss. 
on February U.1926. 
SPOTTED CUCUMBER PESTLE ( Piabr otica 12-punctata Fab . ) 
Alabama W. A. Ruff in (February 3): This insect is quite active and 
abundant in Loxley, as compared with the average year, and 
is feeding on cabbage leaves. 
TURNIP APHID ( Rhopalosiphum psoudobrassicae Davis) 
Mississippi R. W. Harned (March 27): Turnips at Meridian, C-ulfport, 
Long Beach, Purvis, Senatobia, Durant , and other places 
have been found to be seriously infested with Rhppal o slphum 
pseudobrassica e. 
Louisiana Herbert Spencer (March 15)? Aphis pseudobrassicae has been 
troublesome for the last two weeks at Baton Roure on cabbage, 
turnips, and mustard greens. There have been complaints 
from all portions of the State. 
ASPARAGUS 
TWELVE-SPOTTED ASPARAGUS BEETLE ( Crioceri s 12-ounctata L. ) 
Illinois W« V. Salduf : The twelve-spotted asparagus beetle has been 
taken in Illinois for the first time as far as known. It 
appeared :*n insect collections made by students in entomology 
at the University during the summer and fall of 1925. Upon 
inquiry of the students having specimens in their possession 
it was learned that two were collected from asparagus at 
Woodstock, Lake County, near Chicago, on August 30,13^5, 
and others had been taken there but "-ere not included in the 
collection. Tto others, bearing no data, had been taken 
during the summer at Atwocd, Piatt County, on the west border 
of Champaign County,-* ere the University is located. The 
remaining specimens were obtained frorc the asparagus plots 
and fields of the university, in 1923, and bore data as 
follows: September 15, Oct. 2, 3, 5, 12, 15, 17, and 21. Mr. 
L. L. English took one specimen in the University asparagus 
field on July 12, 1925, which is the earliest record knoi : 
for the occurrence of the "ceetle in this State. 
Approximately $00 student collections, composed chiefly 
of materialspicked up around the University have been examined 
since 1922-,- ari this beetle -as never noted in them before 
1925. In the fall, winter, and spring of 1 923-1 92U, a graduate 
student of this departmBnt, making a study of the common 
-us beetle here, did not discover the 12-spoUed 
sp cies. These evidence's, together with the failure of the 
local entomologists to find it, and the f a ct that it is not 
represented in the Illinois St to Natural History Survey 
