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POTATO PSYLLID ( Paratrioza oockerelli Sulc.) 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (June 22): The potato and tomato psyllid is unusually 
numerous in the potato fields of western Nebraska. Complaints of 
damage to tomato plants have been received, the first coming from Chase 
County on June 7» 
Utah. 0. P. Knowlton (June 23): A few of the insects are present generally 
on potatoes. 
BEANS 
MEXICAN BEAN BEETLE ( E-pilachna varivestis Muls.) 
Massachusetts. C. N. Smith (June 13 ): This pest was found causing heavy 
damage to tveans at Vineyard Haven, on Marthas Vineyard. 
Connecticut. N. Turner (June 22): Locally very abundant. Overwintering 
adults have caused serious damage to beans but no larvae have been 
found. 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (June): The first egg masses 
on Long Island weye found on June 6. They were observed hatching by 
June 20. 
Delaware. L. A.- Stearns (June 10): Abundance and injury about average in 
Sussex County. 
Maryland. E. N. Cory (June 22): Continued to emerge through the State over 
a long period. On June 10 the beetles were still appearing in fields 
near Salisbury and for the first time did such severe damage to bush 
lima beans that some fields were plowed under. 
South Carolina. J. N. Todd (June): Cage emergence of hibernating beetles 
at Clems on was l6.1 percent for the season. Heaviest migration from 
hibernation to bean fields occurred the first week in June. 
J. 0. Watts (June 20): Damage in home gardens in Barnwell County is 
increas ing. 
Ohio. R. H. Nelson (June 15): At South Point, first-generation adults 
have not yet appeared. Beans coming up during the last week or so are 
very lightly infested. Early beans .are showing injury in certo.in 
areas, but not generally s ever e. 
Indiana. G-. e. Gould (June 23): This insect is more common than at this 
time last year. 
Michigan. H. Huts on (June 22): Are injuring gardens- in Detroit. 
Tennessee. C. M. Bentley (June l): Heavy infestations found at McMinnville, 
Warren County, 
