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and that he night be liable for a damage suit. I recommended 
that he dust rath nicotine sulphate ahead of the pickers. This 
gave excellent results and the "beetles caused no more trouble. 
The nicotine has also kept the lice down." 
R. W. Earned (January 19): This plant louse, Rho-palosiohum 
V seudob r a s s i cae Davis, has been especially abundant during the 
fall and winter. Complaints have been received from many parts 
of Mississippi. At many places it seems to have completely de- 
stroyed the winter turnip crop. 
Louisiana V". E. Hinds (February 17 ): The turnip aphid at 3aton Rouge is 
apparently unusually abundant this spring. 
TURNIP WEEVIL ( listroderes obliquus G-yll. ) 
Mississippi R. W. Earned (January 19): A letter from Dr. L. 0. Ho^rd, 
dated January 12, 1927, is as follows: "The larvae on forgetne- 
nots collected at Brookhaven, Miss., and sent in by you on Jan- 
uary 5th, have been examined by Dr. Loving who tells me that 
they are partly grown larvae of Listroderes o bliquus . " Speci- 
mens of this insect feeding on turnips '.-ere also received from 
G-loster, on January 13. A complaint in regard to damage caused 
to turnips was also received from Brookhaven, on January 13. 
(February 5)-' vuite a few complaints have been received re- 
cently in regard to damage done to truck crops by the turnip 
weevil. Serious damage to lettuce and turnips at Hattiesburg 
was reported on January 2U. One grower at Ellisville stated, 
on January 26, that these insects had destroyed one-half acre 
of turnips on his property. Another grower, at 3arto, in Pike 
County, stated that they -ere eating his turnips, lettuce, and 
cabbage. One complaint in regard to damage done by this insect 
to onions was received en February 1, from Laurel. On February 
9, a correspondent at McComb, Pike County, sent tomato plants 
that had been eaten by insects. These r;ere accompanied by a 
number of small larvae that J. ... Langston tentatively deter- 
mined as Listroderes obliquus . The correspondent also reported 
that these insects -"ere eating eggplant, pepper, beet, and tur- 
nip plants. On February 9, Inspector J. 2. McEvilly reported 
a 100 per cent infestation of this insect in a turnip patch be- 
longing to a grower at Waynesboro, Wayne County. 
R. W. Earned (February 25): Listroderes obliQuus continue-, w o 
be by far -che most important pest of gardens in the south 
part of the State. Serious complaints in regard to the injury 
caused by this species have recently been received from Jackson, 
Jones, Perry, and Wayne Counties. These reports indicate that 
the turnip crop is one of those most seriously injured. This 
really is serious because one of our most important green vege- 
tables at this time of the year is turnip greens. 
