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MEXICAN BEAS BEETLE 
Although early indications were that the Mexican bean beetle 
( Epilachna corrupta M uls.) \70uld be subnormal ly abundant in the originally 
infested areas in Alabama because of low winter ■ survival, subsequent 
conditions offset the vrinter loss. The first advdts appeared in AlabaiEa 
13 days later than last.ycir- Surveys made late in the season indicated 
that this insect hAs advanced eastward about two tiers of counties in 
western New York State over the known distribution of last year and has 
entered the southeastern part of the State in Oragge and Rockland Counties* 
It is recorded for the first time this year from the greater part of New 
Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland. In North Carolina this irsect has reached 
the coast and in Indiana it has reached the northeast ernmost corner of the 
State and has crossvsd oyer into Branch and Ingham Counties, Michigan. The 
extension of territory southward and westward has been negligible, (largely 
compiled from monthly reports of N. F* Howard, Bureau of Entomology, S, 
D, A. ) • 
ASPARAGUS BEETLES 
Asparagus beetles ( Crioceris spp.) are normally abxmdant through- 
out the Northeastern and East ..Central States and appear to be spread- 
ing slowly southward and more rip idly westward into Iowa and southern 
Illinois, This year Crioceris aSia^fagi L« was reported as destructive 
in Ames, Muscatine, and Des Moines, Iowa, and as far south as Carbondale, 
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SEED CORN MAGGOT ' . . . ' 
During the last week in March the seed corn maggot ( Hylemyia 
cili'crura Kond, ) .was reported as doing serious damage to v/inter truck 
in Mississippi. Late in April considerable damage was being reported 
from parts of KansaSj^ During July rather seriovis injury was reported to 
truck crops in the Lake region of New York State, and this insect appeared 
for the first time ih five years as a serious onion pest in Wisconsin. 
S'-TEET-POTATO ".7ESVIL 
" The sweet-potato weevil ( C.ylas f ormicarius Ea;b.) in southern 
Mississippi and southern Alabama at this date appears to be under the best 
control of any period since the inception of the campaign of control and 
eradication, 
" During the past two years actual loss to the 6ireet— potato crop has 
been negligible. The ai-ea which has previously been found infested has not 
increased and a considerable reduction in nuc:iber of infestations has been 
secured. 
" In Pearl River County, Mississippi, the infested area which has 
been under constant supervision, has apparently been completely cleaned up. 
All of the farms in this area, so far as kno'./n, are free from weevils. How- 
ever," ten new farms in an area 14 miles northwest of the Pic^une area 
have just recently been fomid to be infested with this insect. These in- 
festations are believed to have resulted from weevils having been trans- 
