WINTER NUMBER Al 
These measures reduce the weevils to such small numbers 
that the cotton is enabled to set a good crop of bolls before the 
weevils again become abundant. Where this method of control 
has been tried the past year practically as much cotton has been 
harvested as would have been gathered were no weevils present. 
The principle underlying this method of control is that to- 
wards which the best practice in economic entomology is stead- 
ily tending, viz., a very thoro cleanup of the insect and hence 
less need of frequent repetition, as near an approach to eradi- 
cation as is practicable rather than temporary palliatives. This 
method of dealing with the boll weevil parallels quite closely the 
latest recommendations for the control of the curculio in peaches 
and plums, i. e., to pick up and destroy the drops with their 
contained larvae as well as poisoning the adults. 
Farmers’ Bulletin 950, by Philip Luginbill, treats of the South- 
ern Corn Rootworm (Diabrotica 12-punctata). Altho a common 
insect in Florida, this beetle is with us not a serious pest of corn. 
In the extreme northern part of the state it takes a small per- 
centage of the young corn. The author recommends planting in 
late April to escape damage from this insect. This beetle is 
very common in oat fields about Gainesville from January to 
March. 
Dr. H. 8S. Davis, until a year ago head of the department of 
zoology in the University, is the author of “A New Bacterial 
Disease of Fresh Water Fishes’”—Document 924, U. S. Bureau 
of Fisheries. 
Carl B. James, Horticulturist for the L. and N. Ry., has re- 
cently published a very attractive and valuable bulletin on the 
satsuma orange. 
THE SCOLDING BUTTERFLY 
Dear Friends of the Entomological Society : 
When a person arrives in a new country, the first things that 
attract his attention are the objects and customs to which he 
is not accustomed in his own country. So it was with me when I 
