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SWEET POTATO 
A MOTH ( Herse cingulata Fab.) 
Mississippi R. W. Harned (August 22): Larvae were collected at McComb 
from sweet-potato plants on July 23. The correspondent 
wrote that these insects ate up the vines of 6 acres of his 
sweet potatoes. Specimens were also found injuring sweet- 
potato plants at Kokomo, on July 24. 
SOUTHERN FIELD-CROP INSECTS 
A Correction - The note on Epitrix parvula Fab. by N. Turner 
on page 251 of this volume of the Insect Pest Survey Bulletin 
relates to E. cucumeris Harr. 
SUGARCANE 
SUGARCANE BORER ( Diatraea saccharalis Fab.) 
Florida J. R. Watson (August 21): More abundant than a year ago. 
Louisiana W. E. Hinds (August 22): Generally much less abundant than 
the average. Third generation developing. Trichogramma 
minutum Riley now destroying about one-half of borer eggs in 
the southern part of the cane belt and increasing their con- 
trol to nearly the maximum of 95 to 98 per cent in some 
fields where the wasps were colonized on second-generation 
eggs. 
Texas F. L. Thomas (August 23): Causing severe injury to late 
corn and also damaging cane, in the coastal section. 
FOREST AND SHADE-TREE INSECTS 
ITHITE-MARKED TUSSOCK MOTH ( Hemerocampa leucostigma S.& A.) 
Ohio E. W. Mendenhall (August 2): Quite bad on shade trees on 
the State House grounds at Col-ambus. 
Illinois W. P. Flint (August 19): The first brood was quite abun- 
dant throughout central Illinois. This brood, however, was 
heavily parasitized and apparently the second brood will not 
be so numerous as the first. 
A TUSSOCK MOTH ( Hemerocampa pseudotsugata McD.) 
Idaho C. TTakeland (August 20): Large areas of Douglas fir in the 
• Payette National Forestare being defoliated and killed. Lar- 
