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Oklahoma. C. P. Stiles (August 21): The cotton flea hopper has done enor- 
mous damage throughout the eastern half of the State since the last report. 
The injury is decreasing at present. 
Texas. P. L. Thomas (August 22): Many complaints were received from northern 
Texas during July and the first part of August. 
K. P. Ewing and R. L. McGarr (August 17): -No damage in Calhoun County 
except in few fields of young cotton. 
Arizona. T. P. Cassidy (August 17): Experimental cotton at Ar end Ranch, 
Pima County, grown in the immediate proximity to croton plants that were 
heavily infested, has shown no indication of injury. Sweepings have "been 
made weekly since July 1 with negative results. On August 8, ICO sweep- 
ings each were made in the cotton and croton. 59 hoppers were taken from 
croton and none from cotton. 
RAPID PLANT BUG ( Adelphocorus rapidus - Say) 
Texas. K. P. Ewing and R. L. McGarr (August 10): Heavy infestation and con- 
siderable damage observed in one field in Calhoun County. Adults and 
nymphs were brought into the office from Jackson County, where the insect 
is reported as the principal som-ce of dama,ge at the present tine. 
PALSE CHINCH BUG (Nysius cricae Schill.) 
Oklahoma. P. A. Ponton (August 20): Reports were received from the south- 
western part of the State of shedding of cotton squares caused by the 
false chinch bug. 
A PENTATOMID (C hlorochroa uhleri Stahl) 
Arizona. T. P. Cassidy (August 10): An intensive inspection was made in 
experimental cotton grown 25 miles southwest of Tucson on August S. 
Six species of hemipterous insects were found. The relative abundance 
of C_. uhleri and all other species was about 10 to 1. The shedding, was 
confined almost entirely to young bolls. Examinations made of a number 
of plants showed that from 70 to 100 percent of the bolls had been in- 
jured by hemipterous insects. This is the heaviest injury of this kind 
ever roted here. C. uhleri seems to have migrated into the field from 
the desert. 
COMMON RED SPIDER ( Tctranychus telarius L. ) 
North Carolina. C. H. Brannon (August 27): Infestation severe on cotton in 
many sections of the State, 
Mississippi. G. I. Worthington (August 23): More numerous on cotton in Boliva.: 
Sunflower, and Washington Counties than for several yeais. 
Arkansas. D. Iscly (August 23): The red spider is causing more serious injury 
on cotton in eastorn Arkansas than it has for a number of years. 
