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for a number of years been known as infesting the sweet potato, but has not 
heretofore been recognized as of much importance. 
In Mississippi during the past season the sugarcane beetle ( Suetheola 
rupiceps Lee.) caused very unusual damage to swSet potatoes, as high as 
26^ per c ent of the tubers in three lots examined by the inspectors being 
rendered unmarketable* 
The coffee bean weevil (ftragr.arus fasciculatus DeG. ) has been found working 
on sweet potatoes in storage near Foley, Ala. 
The pepper weevil (Anthonpmus eugenii Cano) is now one of the most 
important pests in the pepper-growing sections of Orange County, Calif • .where 
losses have run as high as 50 to 65 per cent of the crop. Approximately 8,000 
acres of peppers are grown annually in this county. 
The spotted asparagus beetle ( Crioceris duodecinrpunctata L* ) was in 1926 
collected for the first time in the State of Illinois. It appeared in students' 
collections, in the fall of 1925, from lake, Piatt, and Champaign Counties. 
Inasmuch as very extensive collections have since 1922 been made annually 
over this same region, this insect is undoubtedly a quite recent arrival. This 
is the westernmost record for the spotted asparagus beetle, despite the fact 
that its distribution is usually considered the same as that of Crioceris 
■psparagi. 
The Colorado potato beetle ( lePtinotarsa decemlineata Say) was generally 
about normal to subnormal throughout its entire range* This condition alsc 
prevailed throughout Canada, with the exception of a small ategion in southern 
Quebec and in southern Alberta* 
The potato leafhopper (Sa poasca mali Le3 c ) was decidedly more serious than 
usual in Indiana and Illinois, and in the Niagara district of Ontario. 
The pea aphid (£l linoia pi si Kalt # ) was very numerous in the cannery 
pea sections of Maine and southward to eastern Massachusetts; also in the 
pea-canning sections of western Hew York and southern Minnesota. 
A flight of the painted lady ( Vanessa cardui L. ), similar to the one 
reported in 1924, occurred in California this year in Morch. In April the 
larva© were troublesome on lettuce and prunes in parts of that State. 
COTTON INSECTS 
Prom the moss examinations made it was evident that the initial infes- 
tation of the boll weevil (A nthonpmus grand is Boh.) in Louisiana would be 
heavier this year than last, and much heavier in the southern than in the 
northern part of that State. The Mississippi Valley territory in general 
was rather heavily stocked with hibernating weevils, the infestation decreasing 
to the eastward, but with enough weevils present to do serious damage under 
favorable summar weather conditions, rln Texas the weevil population was so 
reduced over a large part of the State that very abnormal weather would be 
required to cause serious damage, Sfos -am.srgcnco of the weevil in the spring 
was extremely slow in practically the entire cotton belt; as the season advanced 
