NOTES OF THE YEAR. 
The Colorado Potato Beetle in Georgia.— In the spring of the 
present year we received the Colorado Potato Beetle (Doryphora 10- 
lineata) for the first time from the State of Georgia. Under date of May 
18 we received from Mr. Woodward Barnwell, of Savannah, a letter ac- 
companied by specimens of the larvte of this insect. There could be 
no question as to their identity. Both Mr. Barnwell and Dr. A. Oemler, 
the president of the Chatham County Agricultural Society and author 
of “Truck Farming at the South,’ 7 wrote that they had never before 
heard of this insect within the limits of the State. 
The evidence shows that the Borypliora did not reach Savannah by 
gradual spread, as we have heard of it from no nearer point of late 
years than eastern Tennessee,* and the chances are that it has been 
directly imported from the North. Such an importation is a very easy 
matter, as many of the truck farmers in the vicinity of Savannah buy 
seed potatoes at the North from time to time. Mr. Barnwell himself 
got last winter 110 barrels seed potatoes from Aroostook County, 
Maine. Under these circumstances the beetle has probably often been 
taken to Savannah before, and the very fact that it has never heretofore 
developed there in sufficient numbers to be noticed affords the best in- 
dication that it is not much to be feared in so warm a climate. Still we 
advised Mr. Barnwell to be on the safe side, and to destroy it as thor- 
oughly as possible by the use of Paris green. 
The Sugar cane Beetle injuring Corn (Plate I, fig. 1). — Six 
.years ago Ligyrus rugiceps Lee., injured the sugar-cane crop quite se- 
verely in certain portions of Saint Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. A note 
upon this habit was given in the Annual Report of the Department for 
1879 (pp. 246-247), and the report for 1880 contained quite an extended 
article on pages 236-240, the result of observations made by Mr. How- 
ard in the spring of 1881 upon the infested plantations. The same ar- 
ticle was embodied in Special Report No. 35 of the Department, pub- 
lished April 28, 1881. 
The beetle seems to have done little damage to sugar-cane outside of 
Saint Mary’s Parish along the Bayou Teche, and since the great floods 
in the spring of 1882, which were especially disastrous in that particu- 
lar region, we have heard no further complaint of sugar-cane pests. 
* Specimens of the beetle and larva were received May 31, 1885, from Mrs. Mary 
Frist, of Chattanooga, Tenn., who wrote that they were destroying the crop of Irish 
potatoes in her garden. 
32 
