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from Moss Point on May 15 with the information that- they were 
abundant on butter beans,- 
Haiti 
LEAFKOPPSR S ( C ic ade 1 1 i dae ) 
R. C. Smith (May 6): A snail green lcafhopper has been 
found to cause a serious yellow's disease of beans in Haiti . 
'The disease makes the growing of beans, except at the highest 
altitudes, impossible except during the winter months. This 
leaf hopper is very plentiful now. The disease also occurs on 
some allied plants. (Specimens have been sent to Dr. DeLong 
for determination.) 
Delaware 
Virginia 
Ohio 
Kentucky 
CUCUMBER 
STRIPED CUCUMBER BEETLE (Diabrotica vittata Fab.) 
H.. L.Eozier (May 17): -Adults of the striped cucumber bee- 
tle were beaten from a peach tree at Bridgeville on May 1. 
P. J. Chapman (May 22): The striped cucumber beetle is mod- 
erately abundant on cucumber, squash, and cantaloupe. 
H. C. Mason (May 16): This insect was observed in the field 
at Columbus Hay IS. 
H. Garman (May 4): A few of the striped cucumber beetles 
have been found. 
Wisconsin 
Minnesota 
Missouri 
Alabama 
E. p.Breakey (May 23): Adults are beginning to appear. 
A. G. Ruggles and assistants (May): The striped cucumber 
beetle is reported quite generally over the southern part of 
the State with scattered reports of severe abundance. 
L. Ha soman (May 24): The beetles arc slow in appearing at 
Columbia, the melons not being planted. 
0. T. Deen (May 3): This insect is Causing 90 per cent dam- 
age to squash blooms at Grand Bay, there being from 10 to 20 
beetles on each bloom. 
J. M. Robinson (May 23): The striped cucumber beetle is 
very abundant throughout the State. 
Mississippi R. '.7. Harned (Hay 17): Inspector X. Harmon on April 22 ob- 
served cucumber beetles appearing in considerable numbers on 
orange trees. He sent 5 specimens to us, 4 of which proved to 
be D. vittata and the other D. duodec impunc tata . The striped 
cucumber beetle was reported during the last week of April as 
causing serious damage to watermelons in the vicinity of 
