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COLORADO POTATO 3DPTL2 
The first adult of the Colorado" potato "beetle ( Lcytiiiotarsa d ecem- 
lineata Say) was observed near Yazoo City, Miss,, on March 20, and in 
the Charleston district of South Carolina on April 5, and at Columbus, 
Mo., on April 21. The prolonged drought was reflected during May along 
the Atlantic seaboard "by a rather unusual- abundance of this insect from 
North Carolina to New York. During the third week in May this insect 
was found in St. Johns County j Fla. , this being the second record that 
this insect has occurred so far south in that State. During July the 
insect was found in Canyon County, Idaho, a previously uninfested county. 
A single specimen was collected in Davis County, Utah, this year. It 
has not teen observed in Utah for several years. 
VEGETABLE WEEVIL 
The vegetable weevil ( Li stro Acres obliquus Gyll.) was first re- 
corded this year on January 25 in Lawrence Co., Miss. At that tine it 
was doing serious damage to turnips. Daring the first half of February 
considerable danage in hotbeds and coldframes was reported throughput 
the infested territory in Mississippi and Louisiana. Reports of similar 
danage continued throughout March, April, and May. As the season ad- 
vanced, damage in the field became more prevalent, being most serious 
on tomatoes, turnips, and carrots. 
11 During the calendar year 1930 the vegetable weevil has been 
found in 33 new counties and parishes, and is now known to occur in 
118 counties in four Gulf 'States. Mississippi lea.ds with 56 known 
infested counties; Louisiana comes second with 40 known infested 
parishes; Alabama third with 19 infested counties, and Florida fourth 
with 3 counties known to be infested^ 
" The dispersion of the weevil northward has not been so rapid 
during the past year as the year "before, but its spread eastward and 
westward has been fully as rapid as before. The weevil is now present 
in at. least 2 parishes bordering on Texas, in Richland parish or just 
one county south of the Arkansas line, and in Yalobusha county or two 
counties from the Tennessee line. 
" A few new wild host plants were found during the year, but with 
one exception the infestation was light." 1 
This insect is now known to occur in parts of ten counties in 
the San Francisco Bay district of California. 
1 M. W, High, Bure».u of TfotrtTnology, U. S. D. A. 
