New Jersey. C. A. Clark (April 25): Pupation of overwintered larvae is from 2 to 
3 weeks later than in 1938 in Burlington, Monmouth, and Middlesex Counties# 
SOU THEM COM BOO TO OEM ( Diabfrotica duodec i mpunc t at a E. ) 
South Carolina. J. G. Watts (April 22): Injury on the increase in the B lacks.’- i lie 
area since April 1. Activities restricted to com on low,, hepvy soil. 
Georgia. T. L. Bissell (April 12): A few "beetles observed on various flowers and 
plants at Tift'on and Enigma. More abundant at Experiment. (April 21 ): Well- 
grown larvae found in soil near Austrian pea plants in sandy soil at Experi- 
ment. Beetles still common on alfalfa and various blossoms,, and 1 found 
feeding on cabbage, ; ( April 22): Pour taken per 100 sweeps of net on 
alfalfa at Experiment. 
Texas. R. II. Fletcher (April 2l): Reported as causing severe, injury to com on 
' March 31 at Wallis, Austin County, 
ALEALEA AND CLOVER 
A WEEVIL ( Hypora brunneipennis Boh. ) 
Arizona. 0. C. Bartlett (April 26): Heavy weevil population found by L. ?. Wehrle 
on April 11, throughout approximately 15 square miles in the Yuma Valley. 
Feeding on clover and alfalfa. Larvae, pupae, and adults found in great 
numbers. (Det. by L. L. Buchanan.) 
California. J. C. Hamlin (April 28): H. brunne ipenn is was found in four spots 
in the vicinity of Winterhaven, in Imperial County today, . 
ALEALEA WEEVIL ( Hypora pos tica Gyll.) 
U"cah, G. E. Knowlton (April 8): Adults observed in several localities in northern 
Utah, and small larvae found infesting alfalfa in one field. 
California. A. E. Michelbacher (April 2l): Infestation in the San Joaquin Valley 
the heaviest since 1932. Injury in several fields borders on economic 
damage, seeding noticeable bex ore cutting, and in several fields populations 
are .large enough that from 4,000 to 6,000 larvae were collected to 100 sweeps 
of an insect net. Although not serious, in most fields there was a general 
increase in the larval population throughout most of the. infested area, 
espite these facts, a survey of fields .along the periphery of the infestat- 
ion revealed no extensions. There was a narked .increase in the larval 
population between March 30 and April 5. Rearing records showed about 40 
percent^ of ^last-stage Larvae as parasitized by Bathyplectes curculionis Thoms. 
“ ffh *>♦ U".ryne rather dlffieult to find in the region about Pleasanton 
* z ln region adjacent to Sun Francisco Bay, the number of 
h 10 2 s *' eps of t!le net for fields ranged from 
JJ° , 15S ; 3® S p* p^aaiseo area 91 percent of last-instar larvae 
p<aros ltized. On April 5 the average number of larvae collected to 100 
sweeps ranged iron 22 to 378 in different fields, and 86 percent of last-in- 
star larvae were parasitized. 
