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Los Angeles, 452 acres have been inspected to date and fields 
totaling 371 acres found infested with the pepper weevil. 
sv,E£? potato 
S77EET-POTATO FLEA BEETLE ( Chaetocnema confinis Or.) 
South Carolina M. H. Brunson (July 10): The sweet potato flea beetle has 
been damaging sweet potatoes and corn quite extensively. 
TORTOISE BEETLES (Cassidinae) 
Mississippi R. \1 . Harned (July 27): Tortoise beetles seen to be rather 
abundant on sweet potato and rooming glory vines in all parts 
of the State. On July 11, Inspector ".7. L. Gray of Natchez re- 
ported that he had never before seen them so abundant as they 
are at the present tirr.e in his territory. They are to be 
found in practically every sweet potato field and on practi- 
cally every morhing glory vine examined. The species that have 
been received at this office are Chelymorr>h^ cogs idea Fab., 
Chirida f ?uttrta Oliv. , "etriona bicolor Fab. , and M. bivitta Say. 
PEANUTS 
TOBACCO THREE'S ( Frankliniella fuse-. Hinds) 
North Carolina ".". A. Thomas (July 2): A small field of peanuts near Chad- 
bourn was observed in which practically every terminal bud 
seemed to be dying. On closer examination it was found that 
these buds were heavily infested with thrips, the injury hav- 
ing occurred just before the young loaves unfolded. After the 
leaves unfolds the injured areas turn brown, which gives the 
buds the appearance of dying. Every plant in the field H 
more or less injured. 
FOREST AND SHADE T ! IHSECTS 
PERIODICAL CICADA ( Lbicina ..etit'-ml '.) 
New York weekly News Letter N. Y. St. Coll. Agr. July C: grange 1 
County (Sidney Jones): The periodical cicada v 
this week. The ci were ovipositing in a pear orchard and 
a vineyard I r.ed considerable d on both. 
Young trees in infested bring cove: 
cloth. Dutchess County (Rqy Bender): The c: • is 
rting to chow up on t ring and dying 
back, probably duo to d: out of the tissue. One vineyard 
is showing a large amount of d due to loci: :ng. 
Ulc;t( r County (E. J. Rimbleton) : Cicada injury t< ad 
apple has caused come comment. The woodland tr Log 
