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that in eastern North Carolina it is a pest of long standing, and is 

 one of the three or four most important insect enemies of the Cotton 

 Crop, — perhaps the most important of all. 



A beetle of the family Chrysomelidce, by the name of Luperodes 

 bru uncus, has been given the title of "The New Cotton Beetle" by 

 Prof. R. I. Smith, in Bulletin 20 of the Georgia State Board of Ento- 

 mology. The species was reported from Georgia as a pest of cotton 

 as early as 1892, and in 1905 w^as sufficiently destructive to cause its 

 discussion in the Bulletin referred to. This same beetle did sim- 

 ilar injury with us in 1903, 1904 and 1905, — and in the present year 

 (1908) it was sent to me wdth the complaint that it was doing de- 

 struction to corn by eating the silk ofi clean down to the husk, and 

 devouring the pollen from the tassels. It seems to have preference 

 for the young flowering portions of the plants which it attacks. 



The Cotton Boll-weevil, while of course far from our borders at 

 the present time, is alleged to have appeared from time to time. 

 About 15 distinct species of insects have been sent in on suspicion 

 of being Boll-weevil, these proving to be everything from the species 

 of nut-weevils (Balaninvs) to Boll-worm and adult Lace-wing flies. 

 The campaign of education is beginning to tell, however, and each 

 year a larger and larger proportion of the insects sent in are of the 

 sub-order Rhyncophora, which shows that some discrimination is be- 

 ing used in the complaints and inquiries. 



The genuine northern Army-worm {Heliophila unipuncta) cropped 

 out in destructive numbers in August not far from Raleigh where it 

 w'as not thought that it would normally be destructive, although 

 the adults occur in the fall every year. The outbreak was looked into 

 by my assistant, Mr. Z. P. ]\Ietcalf, and the interesting studies which 

 he made on the parasitism of the species by its usual Tachinid para- 

 site, are recorded in the December issue of the Journal of Economic 

 Entomology. 



The Gloomy Scale (Aspidiotus tenehricosus) is a pest with us on 

 certain varieties of maple, and more than the usual number of com- 

 plaints have been recorded in 1908. Studies made by Mr. Metcalf 

 show that it is confined principally, if not entirely, to the varieties 

 known as Red Maple and Silver INIaple, w^hile the Sugar Maple, which 

 is the one chiefly relied on for shade in Raleigh, is not attacked. 



The Elm Beetle (Galerucella luteola) is destructive with us every 

 year, chiefly in the towns in the piedmont or red-clay region between 

 the elevations of 500 and 1,000 feet. As nearly as I can ascertain 

 the injury began to be truly serious about 1898, but the insect is 

 now destructive in most of our larger towns in the part of the state 

 referred to. 



