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The new counties recorded this year are as follows: Texa s: Harrison. 
Louiaiana : Caddo, Red Hiver, De Soto, Bossier, Webster, Claiborne, Bienville, 
Jackson, Lincoln, Union, Moorehouse, Ouachita, Caldwell, Winn, Grant, 
Natchitoches, Sabine, and Vernon. Arkansas : Ashley, Chicot. Mississippi : 
Winston, Webster, Chickasaw, Calhoun, Pontotoc, Panola, Tallahatchie, 
Lafayette, and Lee. Alabama: Chambers, Macon, Russell, Barbour, Dale, Pike, 
Houston, Butler, Monroe, Hale, Perry .Autauga, Lowndes, Montgomery, Elmore, 
Chilton, Bibb, and Shelby, Georgia; Early, Troup, Pulton, and Musco. 
Plorida : Washington, Bay, and Calhoun. 
BANDED CUCUMBER BEETLE 
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ing February .reports of damage by the banded cucumber beetle ( Diabrotica 
Lee.) to potatoes, turnips, beans, cabbage, and English peas wore 
received from the entire Gulf coast, from Louisiana to Plorida. In Plorida 
the damage was said to be quite severe at some points. The insect was reported 
as having been active throughout the winter.. Later in the season it did 
damage to sweetpotatoes, corn, and other truck crops. This beetle is apparent- 
ly extending its range of destructive abundance along the Atlantic seaboard. 
This year fall plantings of snap beans, squash, and cucumbers, in the 
Charleston district of South Carolina, were severely damaged. 
"S^EETPOTATO WEEVIL*" 
The sweetpotato weevil has been found in the southeastern raojfftr corner 
in the State of Georgia, many miles north of the generally infested area in 
Florida. It is now known to be distributed over the southeastern quarter of 
Texas, through the southern third of Louisiana, and in the Gulf counties of 
Mississippi, to the southwestinr-oot county of Alabama. East of this the insect 
is only established in the peninsula of Plorida and in the aforesaid corner of 
the State of Georgia. There are previous records of the occurrence of this 
insect in northeastern Texas, southern Okiihoma, northern Louisiana, and 
isolated localities in Tennessee. These infestations have, however, apparently 
disappeared. 
PEPPER WEEVIL 1 
The infestation by the pepper weevil ( Anthonomus eugenii Cano) was light 
and very little damage was caused in southern California during the year. In 
New Mexico, on the other hand, the infestation was the heaviest since 1926 and 
possibly even greater than that year; 30 per cent of the crop was destroyed in 
the Mesilla Valley with heavy damage around Albuquerque. The insect was also 
numerous north of Las Cruces. 
HARLEQUIN BUG 
The harlequin bug ( Murgantia histrionica Hahn) was more or less active all 
winter as far north as> the Norfolk district of Virginia and as the season ad- 
vanced it became destructively abundant in Maryland and West Virginia, By the 
end of the season it appeared in destructive numbers as far north as central 
Ohio, central Indiana, central Illinois, and southern Iowa — all points 
considerably north of its normal habitat. 
1 R. E. Campbell, Bureau of Entomology, U.S.D.A. 
