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to No. 7 (noted in the NEWS for December, 1917, page 470), as it con- 

 tains reports received too late for inclusion in the latter; additional 

 data on the cotton boll weevil in South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee 

 and Oklahoma are recorded; Euphoria inda is noted as injuring cotton 

 bolls in Tennessee for the first time; injuries to apples, due to the 

 codling moth are widespread, as in New York, Oregon, Tennessee and 

 Utah; corn-stalk borers and peach-twig borers in Arizona, fall migrant 

 aphids in Idaho, apple and thorn skeletonizer (Henterophila pariana) 

 in New York, Crioccris asparagi for the first time in Oregon, the 

 strawberry root louse in Tennessee and grasshoppers (4 spp.) in Utah 

 receive special mention. 



No. 9 contains a report of the Federal Horticultural Board on two 

 additional outbreaks of the pink boll-worm in Texas, reported to the 

 Department early in November. The more serious of these is at Trinity 

 Bay, north of Galveston, "the total infested area involved being up- 

 wards of 5,000 acres": "clean-up operations are being pushed with the 

 utmost speed." Results of a recent trip by Mr. Busck to study the 

 status of this insect in Mexican cotton fields are given. 



"As the season of field activities for 1917 nears its end, the outlook 

 as regards the chief insect pests of cereal and forage crops in general 

 is encouraging. With the exception of white grubs and grasshoppers, 

 none of the more dangerous enemies seems to be present in sufficient 

 numbers to warrant apprehension. Of course, this does not mean that 

 a great outbreak of chinch bug, Hessian fly, army worm, or green bug 

 cannot occur during the growing season of 1918. Nevertheless, field 

 conditions at present indicate no such probability." 



The sweet potato weevil (Cyclas formicariits Fabr.), "the most im- 

 portant pest of the vear," was found in November for the first time in 

 (coastal parts of) Georgia and Mississippi, as well as in Tennessee; 

 data on the present known distribution of this species are given. Plans 

 for extension work in bee-keeping west of the Appalachians are out- 

 lined. We shall reprint elsewhere in the NEWS a very interesting state- 

 ment concerning Icerya control at New Orleans. There are reports 

 trom fourteen States and from Porto Rico, dealing with many 

 insects of economic importance. 



Report No. 10, for January 5, 1918, contains some little additional 

 information on the pink boll-worm in Texas and Mexico. The Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture has prohibited the importation of any variety of 

 sweet potato or yam (Ipomoca batatas and Dioscorca spp.) from all 

 foreign countries and fn>m Hawaii and Porto Rico into any part of 

 the United States, from January i, 1918: this is in relation to the 

 spread of the sweet potato weevil, for which additional localities in 

 Mississippi are reported. The report from California, occupying 

 nearly three pages, consists of a statement by Mr. George P. Gray on 

 the consumption and cost of the economic poisons employed against 



