107 



Table showing egg-laying record of the plum curadio, cte. —Continued. 



The following papers, which had been sent to the secrecary, were 

 read by title: 



NOTES FROM NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA. 



By T. D. A. CoCKBRELL, Ecist La.t Vegas, N. Mex. 



Nothing especially remarkable has occurred in the field of economic 

 entomology during the past year or two in this part of the country, 

 but the following records are not without interest. 



COCCID^. 



Parlatorla hlancJ^ardi (Targ.). — Professor Forbes (Johnson, Fumi- 

 gation Methods, p. 229) has recorded the fumigation of about 400 

 date-palm suckers infested with Parlatoria. He determined, experi- 

 mentally, that palms would stand a strong dose, and accordingly treated 

 all those received at Tempe, Ariz. , for the date-palm orchard of the Ari- 

 zona experiment station. In the spring of the present year I inspected 

 all these palms and found that the Parlatoria had been totally destroyed. 

 Of course, there are parts of the palms which can not be examined 

 without pulling them to pieces, but I feel quite sure that the Parlatoria 

 would be in evidence upon the visible parts by this time if any had 

 survived. On one palm I found a small quantit}^ of Pkoenicococcus 

 marlaUi, Ckll., alive and healthy. 



