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NEW LOCALITIES IN GEORGIA AND IN ALABAMA. 



Mr. W. M. Scott wrote September 2, 1899, concerning the occur- 

 rence of this rnoth in his State saying, among other things, that he had 

 received specimens from Tifton, Ga., a locality not previously men- 

 tioned, and that the pest was injurious that season as also in former 

 years. Owing to the crop about Augusta being so badly infested last 

 season, the truckers there planted scarcely any turnips the present 

 season, and for this reason, probably, the cabbage webworms were not 

 noticed to be very numerous in that vicinity. On an experimental 

 plat of Mr. Scott's at that place, however, these insects appeared to be 

 as numerous as last year. 



September 9, 1899, Mr. F. S. Earle sent specimens of the larvae of 

 this species, with the accompanying information that it was injurious 

 to turnip seedlings at Auburn, Ala., and had been very troublesome 

 for the past three seasons, its presence being noticeable in the fall of 

 the year. The species was stated to have practically ruined the turnip 

 crop in many gardens. 



September 11 Mr. Thomas I. Todd. Athens, Clarke County. Ga., 

 wrote of the appearance the past summer of this webworm, which he 

 described as very destructive on cabbage, turnip, etc., and September 

 18 specimens of the insect were received from the same correspondent. 

 Our correspondent stated that turnips once infested by being attacked 

 at the bud never made good growth afterwards. The species was 

 referred to as the "Augusta webworm." The caterpillars were stated 

 to form their webs on one side of a plant near the surface of the 

 ground or under the end of a leaf resting upon the ground. Our cor- 

 respondent had kept two hands employed since the 22d of April dust- 

 ing the plants nearly every day with poisons and searching for this 

 particular caterpillar. The loss sustained by him was placed at not 

 less than $250. During that season 50 pounds of Hammond's slug 

 shot were used in one week without apparent benefit, and Mr. Todd 

 stated that if he could not check this webworm he would have to 

 abandon the raising of cabbages and turnips. Paris green applied in 

 the usual manner, dusted on the plants, was tried twice each week 

 without much effect. Two acres of turnips were so badly infested 

 that they had to be plowed under. 



NOTES ON DISTRIBUTION ABROAD*, SYNONYMY. 



As the appearance of the species in the vicinity of Augusta, Ga., 

 the only other locality besides Los Angeles, Cal., in which it was pos- 

 itively known to occur in this country at the date of publication of the 

 writer's first article, does not appear to have been observed prior to 

 August, 1897, it seems probable that it was first introduced in the 

 region where now established in South Carolina and Georgia, near 

 Charleston, and at least as early as 1895, and from there has spread to 



