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the season. The same was true in southern Ohio; about Athens the 
population decreased in summer and late fall to the lor/est point on 
record, but along the Ohio River heavy fall infestations were not 
uncommon. In Kentucky and in some southern Ohio counties infestations 
were reported to be unusually heavy. 
Since northern and eastern limits had apparently been approached 
in 1928, relatively little new territory was available. The chief 
spread occurred in New York, Connecticut, and just into the south- 
western edge of Massachusetts, and in the Carolines.- In North 
Carolina practically the whole State is now covered, and in South 
Carolina only a few counties in the southern portion are free from 
the beetle. Slight spread to the west occurred in Michigan, Indiana, 
Tennessee, and Mississippi, and probably in Kentucky, though no new 
records were received from the. latter State. It appears that 
survival in New York State and Michigan is very low, except pOB-aiibly about 
Chautauqua Lake in New York. No infestations of sufficient proportions 
to cause commercial losses were found in the sections of either State 
where beans are extensively grown. In Canada only one new record 
(at Guelph) was obtained. Dominion entomologists have found that the 
insect, in some instances, failed to survive the winter. 
SEED CORN MAGGOT 
Late-planted beans in rather large acreages were destroyed by 
the seed-corn maggot ( Hylemyia cili crura Rond.) in the Norfolk 
district of Virginia; and although scattered reports of slight damage 
were received throughout the spring months from various parts of the 
country and of rather serious infestations in western New York, east- 
central Iowa, and central California, the year as a whole was not one 
of unusual injuries. 
S'tfEET-PGTATO Y/EEVIL 
The situation with regard to the sweet-potato weevil' ( Cylas 
formicarius Fab,) is practically the same as last year in Mississippi 
and Alabama. During the year actual loss to the sweet-potato crop 
has been negligible. The percentage of injury on farms where the 
insect has been found was very slight and the area of infestation has 
not increased. The weevil was found this year on a total of 58 farms 
in the five counties known to be infested. 
BEET LEAFHOPPER 
Severe winter conditions produced a high mortality of the beet 
leaf hopper (Eutettix tenellus Baker) in southern Idaho where the insect 
was unusually scarce in the spring. This condition extended into 
northern Utah and eastern Oregon. The leafhoppcr was observed for the 
first time in the Willamette Valley section of Oregon in 1926. Late in 
the season reports of large populations in the desert breeding grounds 
were received from Idaho and Utah. 
