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attention to the reported occurrence of the weevil outsido of tiie region 

 indicated upon the accompanying map. A number of reports origi- 

 nating in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Indian Territory liave been inves- 

 tigated b}^ entomologists connected with the Bureau. Through 

 cooperation with State and station entomologists the Bureau has 

 obtained specific information about reports originating in Georgia, 



Fig. 5.— Map of territory infested by boll weevil. 



South Carolina, and elsewhere. All such reports investigated have 

 been found to rest upon a mistaken identitication of some of the 

 numerous insects more or less resembling the boll weevil which have 

 been found in cotton fields. 



DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE BOLL WEEVIL. 



The following table, reproduced from Farmers" Bulletin No. 189, 

 shows the great damage caused by the boll weevil: 



