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VEGETABLE WEEVIL ( Listroderes obliquu's Gyll .')' 
Mississippi H. Dietrich. (October 20): The- vegetable" weevil was injuring 
turnips by eating off leaves' at Lucedale on "October 20. This 
is the first' notice of 'this pest this year.- .v "'- 
PLEA BEETLES (Kalticinae) 
Mississippi H. Dietrich (October 20): Flea beetles Phyllotreta bipustu.lata 
Pab. , P. vittata Pab. , and P. aeneicollis Cr. ,■ were very abundant" 
on turnip and cabbage in southern George Country on October 8. 
C. Lyle (October 22) ;• A correspondent at Courtland sent to 
this office on October 14 specimens of P. vittata with the 
report that they were abundant' on turnips.- ' 
BANDED CUCUMBER BEETLE ( Diabrotica balteata Lee . ) 
Alabama K. L. Cockerham (October 1): Adults were quite plentiful 
on the foliage of fall Trish potatoes at Foley-, Baldwin County. '. 
■' ; ' BLISTER BEETLES ( Spicauta spp.).^ 
South Carolina ■ J. B. Hull (October 19): The margined blister beetle (E. 
margin at a Pab. ) is causing considerable damage to ornamental 
ga.rdens at Charleston by feeding on the foliage of ivy. 
Illinois J. H. Bigger (October 13):' Blister beetles,-, mostly E. vittata 
Pab., are 'more abundant than ordinarily during the season of' 
1931. They were caught in the car .while I was traveling along 
roads on several occasions. 
Mississippi C. Lyle and assistants (October): Striped blister beetles 
are very abundant over the northwestern counties. '•'•■."• '' >?- 
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SOUTHERN GREEN : STINK 'BUG'^Negara vlridula L. ) 
Alabama J. M. .Robinson (October 21.)=*i.j The green stink bug is 
moderately abundant on beans at Mobile. 
Mississippi C. Lyle and assistants (October): The green stink bugs are 
moderately abu.?idant o'n peas at 'efcean Spring's,. (October 20); 
The southern green stink '.bug adults and' various, stage, nymphs 
have been unusually abundant throughout the month on cowpeas 
and butter lima beans in George County, in many cases destroying 
most of the crop. The brown cotton bug ( Suschistus servus Say) 
is present with the above but in lesser numbers. 
