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one ranking first in importance includes Brazoria and Galveston coun- 

 ties — two adjoining coast counties near the southeastern corner of the 

 State. In this section examinations were made on April 7 and 8 at 

 Alvin and Galveston, respectively, but without finding an}^ indications 

 of the presence of the strawberry weevil. The second largest straw- 

 berr3"-growing section of Texas is included in Smith County, near the 

 northeastern corner of the State. An examination was made at Tyler, 

 near the center of this section, on April 13, and again on April 28. 

 On the first of these dates a single adult specimen was taken, and on 

 the second occasion two adult specimens. In a total of about three 

 hours spent near T3der in fields of strawberries, blackberries, and 

 dewberries, searching for these weevils and for evidence of their 

 work, only the three adults and less than fifty injured buds were found. 

 The only published record known to the writer of the strawberry 

 weevil's occurrence in Texas was b}'^ Dr. F. H. Chittenden,^ who reported 

 injur}^ by this species, in 1897, to blackberries and dewberries near 

 Denison, in Graj^son County, in the north-central section of the State. 

 The fruit farms of the two correspondents who reported serious losses 

 in that 3^ear were visited b}^ the writer on April 21, 1905, and examina- 

 tions made in fields of strawberries, blackberries, and dewberries. One 

 of the owners reported that the weevils had been scarcel}^ noticeable 

 since April, 1897, when the}^ were ver}^ destructive and so abundant 

 that on sunshin}^ da3^s they seemed to fairly swarm on the foliage of the 

 food plants. This encouraging report concerning its scarcit}^ in recent 

 3^ears gives ground for the hope that conditions in northern Texas will 

 as a rule be unfavorable for this pest, altho a certain degree of inter- 

 mittence in abundance during a series of years has been generally 

 observed in other localities. 



THE STRAWBERRY WEEVIL IN LOUISIANA. 



In 1899, as shown by the Census report,* 90 per cent of the straw- 

 berries produced in this State were grown in Tangipahoa Parish. 

 This parish is located a short distance northwest of New Orleans. 

 Hammond, one of the tw^o leading shipping points in the parish, was 

 visited on April 11. Examinations in strawberry fields and of wild 

 blackberry bushes along the roadsides, in a downpour of rain, resulted 

 in finding no evidence of the presence of the strawberry weevil near this 

 place. As the day was so far from an ideal one for finding adults of 

 this species, the only significant point is the failure to find a single 

 flower bud injured in a manner to cause their presence to be suspected. 



« Bui. 10, n. s., Div. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agric, pp 82-83. 

 ^ Twelfth Census of the United State.s, 1900. 



