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Alabama. J. M. Robinson (February 17): Mole crickets have been reported on 
vegetables at Jasper. 
Mississippi. C Lyle (February 21): Complaints of injury by mole crickets in 
gardens have been received from Biloxi and C-ulfport, Harrison County. 
FIELD CRICKET ( G-ryllus assimilis jab.) 
California. F. H. Wymore (February 21).: A fev? specimens of the field cricket 
in the vicinity of Davis have reached maturity. 
SEED COR!-? yAGGOT ( Hylemyia cilicrura Rond. ) 
Iowa. C. J. Drake (February 17): The seed corn maggot is very abundant, also 
a pest of onions. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (February 21): A correspondent at Perkinston, Stone 
County, sent to us on November 22, 1932, specimens of H. cilicrura with 
the information that these insects had apparently destroyed a first 
planting of turnip seed and seriously injured the second. 
GREEN PEACH APHID ( Myzus persicae Sulz. ) 
Virginia. H. G. Walker (February 23 ): In general, insects have been rather 
scarce during the past winter. The spinach aphid, M. persicae , has been 
unusually scarce. 
FALSI! CHINCH BUG ( Nysius ericae Schill.) 
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South Carolina. A. Lutken (February 25): False chinch bugs were very de- 
structive to turnips and related plants during the early winter. 
BEANS 
MEXICAN BEAN BEETLE ( Spilachna corruuta Muls.) 
West Virginia. L. M. Peairs (February 23): A goodly percentage of the Mexi- 
can bean beetle was reported alive in cages. 
PEAS 
PEA WEEVIL ( Bruchus uisorum L. ) 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (February 17): Pea weevils have been reported on 
peas at Parrish. 
Oregon. Monthly Letter of the Bureau of Entomology, U.S.D.A., No. 224 (Decem- 
ber, 1932): Pea weevil attacks all varieties of peas. — A. L. Larson, 
Corvallis, reports that "part of the time has been occupied in counting 
the number of weevil (B. pisorum ) stings in 73 varieties and strains of 
peas grown on the Oregon Experiment Station plots-. *** Some- peas had as 
many as 17 entrance holes and one lot had 853 entrance holes in 100 peas. 
All here heavily infested; 35 of these varieties and strains have been 
examined from the crops of 1930, 1931, and 1932. *** These peas were 
