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THUCI-CROP INSECTS 
VEGETABLE WEEVIL ( Listroderes obliquus Gyll.) 
T. O'Neill (May 23): About 30 adults and one larva were 
submitted with report of severe injury to an open "bed of to- 
mato plants at Atlanta. First recorded from this locality 
May 20. 
W. E. Hinds (May 26): The vegetable weevil has been extreme- 
ly abundant in this State, but appears now to have mostly en- 
tered aestivation. 
M. M. High (May 16): The following additional counties in 
Mississippi have been found infested: Winston, Webster, Chick- 
asaw, Calhoun, Panola, Tallahatchie, Lafayette, Lee, and Pon- 
totoc. 
FLEA BEETLES (Halticinae) 
L. D. Anderson (May 26): Potato flea^oeetles ( Epitrix 
fuscula Crotch) seem to be steadily increasing in numbers 
each year and are causing considerable damage in Accomac and 
Northampton Counties. 
E. N. Cory (May 13): Truckers report an unusual abundance 
of flea beetles attacking most crops throughout the State. 
J. A. Munro (May 23): Present by the thousands on radishes 
and onions in a garden -at Carrington (Foster County). They 
are also abundant in the vicinity of Fargo. 
J. P. Kislanko (May): The eggplant flea beetle, E. fuscula , 
infestation w a s rather heavy in Stone and Forrest Counties 
during the first part of May, eggplant leaves being severely 
perforated. 
G. F. Knowlton (May 18): Flea beetles are damaging radishes 
and turnips in several parts of Tooele County. They are do- 
ing less than the usual amount of damage to sugar beets. 
SPOTTED CUCUMBER BEETLE ( Diabrotica duode cimpunctata Fab.) 
L. W. Brannon (April 29): The first adult of the 1932 
season was observed feeding on beans on April 29. 
W. A. Thomas (May 12): The larvae of this insect are fre- 
quently found either emb&dded or partially embedded in ripe 
fruit of the strawberry at Chadbourn. This seems to be true 
only when the berries are lying in contact with the soil. 
0. I. Snapp (April 28): Adults are abundant on peach trees 
at Fort Valley, feeding on the petals, calyxes, and to some 
extent on the green peaches. 
