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CABBAGE MAGGOT (H ylemyia brassicae Bouche) 
New York Weekly News Letter, N. Y. State College of Agr.„ May: The 
cabbage maggot was reported as very numerous in Suffolk County 
the week of May 13. The fly was reported as beginning to ley 
eggs in Onondaga County the week of May 20 and in Chautauqua 
and Erie Counties the week of May 27. 
CABBAGE APHID ( Brevieoryne brassicae L.) 
Virginia G. E. Go-old (May, 22) : This insect is moderately abundant and 
doing some damage, but not so abundant as last year. Most of 
the cabbage is harvested in time to escape serious injury. 
North Carolina C. H. Brannon (May 18): A large field of rape in Washington 
County has been completely destroyed by the cabbage aphid. 
HARLEQUIN HJG ( Morgan tia histrionica Hahn) 
Maryland E. II. Cory (May 6): The harlequin bog appeared on April 8 
in Dorchester County. 
North Carolina 17. A. Thomas (May 20): Hundreds of nymphs are now feeding 
on mature seed pods of broccoli in the Chadbourn section. 
Adults are no longer abundant on these plants since the seed 
have matured, but nymphs are attacking the dry pods, evidently 
feeding on the seed within. 
$t„ P. Metcalf (May 27): The harlequin bug is very abund.^dt; 
at Raleigh. 
South Carolina M. H. Brunson (May 18): The harlequin bug is very abundant. 
Alabama J. H, Robinson (May 20): The harlequin bug is occurring M\ 
all over the State in great abundance. 
Mississippi R. ',7. Harned and assistants (May): This insect is moderately 
abundant in practically all parts of the State and reported as 
doing considerable damage at Buena Vista, Okolona, Morgan City, 
Jackson, -Meridian, and many other places in the State. 
Louisiana 7.'. A.Douglas (May S) : This insect was found numerous on 
Irish potatoes in a field near Crowley. This is an unusual 
occurrence and was witnessed by 1. 2. Walton and W, E. H^lcy 
of the Bureau of Entomology. 
CROSS- STRIPED CABBAGE WORM ( ivcrgestis r i mo sal i s Guen.) 
Mississippi K. L. Cockerham (May 6) : This cabbage worm was found doing 
considerable damage to cabbage at Biloxi. 
FLEA BEETLES ( Phyllotreta spp.) 
Mississippi R. W. KaTned (May 17): Plea beetles causing damage to cab- 
