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• TOBACCO 
TOBACCO FLEA BEETLE ( Epitrix garvula Fab.} 
North Carolina C. H. Bra-.inon (April 30): Damage to tobacco beds is the 
■Worst in years all over the State. 
0hl ° T - H. Parks (May 24): Flea "beetles were very injurious 
to tobacco plants in seed beds in Laurence County early in 
May . 
Kentucky 7. A. Price (April 23): The tobacco flea beetle has been 
very troublesome in tobacco beds generally over the State. 
Tennessee J. u. Gilmore and J. Milam (May 25): Practically all 
fields at Glarksville this season have suffered severely 
from flea beetle attacks. 
TOBACCO THRIP3 ( Frankliniella fusca Hinds) 
Florida F. S. Chamberlin (May 10): Very abundant and severe damage 
will result if rains do not occur in the near future. 
FOREST AND SHADS - TREE INSECTS 
PERIODICAL CICADA ( Magic icada se-ptendecim L.J 
Pennsylvania s. '7. Frost (May 25): This morning I found four newly 
emerged cicadas. A-p-oarently they are quite numerous, as these 
v.ere found by chance in doing other rork in the orchard. The 
specimens I observed occurred in the northern end of Adams 
County. 
Maryland P. Oman (May): Found at Hyatt sville (Fly Avenue); and in 
Washington, D. C. (35th & Van Ness, N. 7.). 
J. A. Hyslop (May 22): Two newly formed pupal skins were 
found on a tree on my farm at Avanel today. (May 27): Several 
hundred pupal skins were collected from a few trees. 
F. H. Berger (May 23): Pupae have been crawling out and 
adults emerging since Friday, May 20, at Hyatt sville. 
Virginia '7. S. Fisher (May): Found at Falls Church. 
South Carolina A. Lutken (May 14): The periodical cicadas are emerging 
in large numbers over an area extending at least a mile 
north of the -point v.here re ma.de the collection, "tfalhalla 
and Issaquena Falls. 
