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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 (Hemerophila pariana) 
in New York, Crioceris 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 sesson 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 formicarius Fabr.), “the most im- 
portant pest of the year,” was found in November for the first time in 
(coastal parts of) Georgia and Mississippi, as well a im 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 Jcerya 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 (Ipomoea batatas and Dioscorea spp.) from all 
foreign countries and from Hawaii and Porto Rico into any part of 
the United States, from January 1, 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 
