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T R I UK-CROP INSECTS 
CEI J _\ I K Vr -"■ EDFRS 
IliBRICATED ShCl"-"!!:.;" ( Eticaerus irobricatus Say) 
Mississippi R. W= Ha: -il 11 A : Several reports have beer, received 
; the caused by the ii icatsd snout-beetle in 
Ueorgc bounty f Miss. The c: / s indents state that these 
insects are attacking ail kinds of gi n foliage, but mention 
especially turnips and s ^r.d pears. 
PC"". CX)-TU3ER :hTh (-h-hcr ir.a^a c- erculella Zell.) 
California Wee \ v Sews Letter, State cf California, Dept. cf Agriculture, 
Volume 6, h:. 7 (April 5): A committee of Coin a Potato Growers, 
-•": ri - 2. will visit Sacramentc for the purpose of checking the 
possibility cf the application of this method (fumigation) to 
potatoes going tc the northwest. The potato growers in the Coh_ra 
district -estimate that their losses last year were in the neighbor- 
hood :f 140,000, due tc the markets of the Northwest being ciosed~t< 
them, because cf the presence :: the tuber moth. 
AUSTRALIAN TOMATO WEEVIL (P gsianth a nociva Lea) 
Alabama J. E. Braf (April 25): I have just r-eeived a letter from Mr. 
Ott: Br« Shief of the Division of Plant Industry, State of 
Ala., in ifaich he communicates report cf the finding of the 
Australia.--, t ornate weevil in two places 10 miles apart just out- 
side cf the city limits cf Mobile. 
Mississippi R. ~. Earned (April 21 A : Mr. H. ?. Loding of Ffobils, Ala., has 
written us that a specimen of the so-called Australian tcrato 
svil has been found at Orchard, Mobile County, Ala. This 
specimen "_3 found in the pupa stasre under a ics by Dr. Van Aller, 
and the adult emerged ;r. April 15. This is the only record we 
have of this insect occurring in Alabama. So far it has been 
od in only five counties in Mississippi - Hancock, Harrison, 
Jackson, Peer! River, and Stone. 
pot a — 
POTATO AP HUJ ( : .acres it rur. solanifoiii Ashm 
Virginia H. Spencer (April 25): The pink and green aphid is appearing 
early this year. There is just a sprinkling cf them no* - 
COLORAEC POTATC BEETLE fLentinotarsa decemlineata Say) 
i Jippi r . 7- HcGehe April 15): Only a few specimens nave ocen fcur.d 
at Holly Springs tc late. 
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