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with most fields showing a much lower count. Here paras itizat ion has 
"been close to 90 percent. In the San Joaquin Valley some very high weevil 
counts were made. At Patterson on March 31 the average number taken 
to 100 sweeps was 5>£>90. * n this field some economic damage was done. 
On the same date near Vernalis one field showed an average count close 
to 2,500, hut no economic damage resulted. Throughout this area the 
weevil population was the greatest yet encountered. Paras it.izat ion was 
very low and ranged from less than 1 percent to nearly 10 percent. The 
parasite has apparently "become dispersed over most of the infested area. 
LEAEHOPPERS ( C i cade 1 1 idae ) 
Louisiana. B. A. Osterberger (April 23):. Many undetermined leafhoppers have 
"been found on alfalfa. Some yellowing of plants and girdling has "been 
noticed at Baton Rouge. 
TARNISHED PLANT. BUG ( Lygus pratensis L.) 
Louisiana. B. A. Osterberger (April 23): The tarnishr.d plant "bug has "been 
found in considerable numbers on alfalfa at the sugar station at Baton 
Rouge. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (April 20): The tarnished plant hug is quite numerous 
at Manhattan. 
A CRANE ELY ( Tipula cunctans Say) 
Kentucky. W. A. Price (April 25): Leather jackets (T. cunctans ) , Uo to the 
square foot, were found in a field of lespedeza at Mayfield. This 
field had "been in lespedeza k years in succession. 
VETCH 
APHIDS (Aphiidae) 
North Carolina. C. H. Brannon (April 25): Vetch in peach orchards over a 
wide area in Scotland County is severely damaged "by aphids. 
SUGARCANE 
SUGARCANE BORER ( Diatraea saccharalis Eah . ) 
Louisiana. 3. A. Osterberger (April 21): On April 21 cane borer adults 
were found at lights, and fresh eggs were collected at Eranklin, 
Jeanerette, and New Iberia, but no Trichogramma minutum Riley have 
been found in any of the borer eggs collected. 
