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A CHIRONOMID ( Camptocladius sp. ) 
Pennsylvania. C. A. Thomas (March 22): An unusual injury to recently potted 
tomato seedlings was found in a greenhouse at Kennett Square, south- 
eastern Pennsylvania, in February. The seedlings fell over on the soil 
as if "damped off." Examination revealed that each plant had been bored 
into just below the surface of the soil and then hollowed out by these 
tiny larvae. The larvae had. probably come from the barnyard manure with 
which the potting soil had been mixed, and after the manure became dry 
they attacked the tomato plants. 
BEANS 
POTATO LEAFHOPPEH ( Empoasca fabae Harr. ) 
Florida. M. D. Leonard (March 1~[): During January and February there has 
been one of the worst infestations of the potato leafhopper on string 
and lima beans that has occurred in several years in the lower east 
coast of Florida and along the eastern shore of Lake Okeechobee. 
CABBAGE 
IMPORTED CABBAGE WORM ( Ascia rapae L. ) 
Virginia. H. G. Walker (March 2U): Nearly full-grown imported cabbage worms 
were observed feeding on collards the middle of January at Norfolk. A 
few imported cabbage worm butterflies have been observed flying over 
kale, collard, and cabbage fields during the past week. 
North Carolina. W. A. Thomas and F. A. Wright (March 8): Adults -of the com- 
mon cabbage butterfly have been intermittently active in the vicinity of 
Chadbourn most of the winter, no doubt due to the abnormally high winter 
temperature. 
South Carolina. F. Sherman (March 29) ' The white cabbage butterfly was in 
flight as early as February at Clemson, but we have no complaint of damage, 
Louisiana. C. E, Smith and R. W. Brubaker (March 2U): Adults have been ac- 
tive and ovipositing for 2 weeks, and a considerable sprinkling of larvae, 
mostly of the first insta.r, are present on cabbage at this time, at Baton 
Rouge. 
DIAMONDBACK MOTH ( Pluto 11a maculipen nis Curt.) 
Virginia. H. G. Walker (March 2U): The larvae of the diamondback moth con- 
tinued to be quite destructive to kale and collards until about the 
middle of January at Norfolk; however, all stages of this insect are 
rather scarce, while its hymenopterous parasite, Angitia hellulae Vier, , 
is rather abundant. 
Louisiana. C. E. Smith and R. W. Brubaker (March 2U): The larva of the 
diamondback moth is relatively scarce on the experimental cabbage plant- 
ing at Baton Rouge. 
