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Clackamas, Hoed River, Marion, and Washington Counties , Wash. It- '"as also feunu 
in seed cleaning mills where the weevil was found in seed being processed or on 
the premises in Multnomah County, 0reg* v and Clark and Cowlitz Counties, Wash. 
As this infestation was discovered late in the season, after the vetch crop had 
been harvested, cleaned, and part of the seed shipped, it was too late for a 
thorough survey to be made to determine the extent of the area infested. The 
data on the western infestation was furnished by L. P. Rockwood, of the forest 
Grove, Oreg. , laboratory. 
Collections of bruchid- infested seed were gathered in North Carolina and 
in Pennsylvania during the summer and placed in rearing boxes for the issuance of 
parasites. No parasites were reared from this material other than those reported 
in former years. Eockwood reports finding one specimen of Bruchobius mayri Masi 
from bruchid— infested seed at Reedsville, Washington county, Oreg. This gives a 
new distributional record for this parasite, which 'was first found in this country 
in 1936 and which has been reported only from Rowan and Iredell Counties, N. C., 
■and from Adams County, Pa. A small release of Trias pis thoracicus Curt, was made 
at Statesville, N. -C., and a large release at Arendtsville, Pa., in July. No 
adults of this parasite have issued from bruchid- infested material collected in 
both release areas. (J. S. Pinckney, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 
U. S. D. A.) 
WHITE_ERIN&ED BEETLE 
The area known to be infested by the white-fringed beetle was greatly en- 
larged by intensive scouting during 193^. ’At present the beetle is known to 
exist in 23 counties in 4 States. The infested counties and States are as follows 
Covington, Geneva, Monroe, Conecuh, Wilcox, and Mobile Counties, in Alabama; 
Escambia, Okaloosa, and Walton Count ies , in Florida; Jacks cn, Harris on. Pearl 
River, Jones, Smith, Covington, and Hinds Counties, in Mjffesis sippi; Orleans, St. 
Bernard, Jefferson, St. Tammany, Plaquemines, East Baton Rouge', and Jefferson 
Davis Parishes, in Louisiana. The larger infested areas ore around Elorala, 
Ala., and New Orleans, La. • In the Elorala area a portion of 4 counties lying in 
2 States ore infested, while in the N ew Orleans area portions of 4 parishes are 
infested. The infested areas in the other counties are less extensive. The in- 
festation at Glendale, Walton County, Ela. , about l6 miles southeast of Elorala, 
is the farthest east of any known infestation, the northernmost Ion own infesta- 
tion occurs at Bolton, in Hinds County, Miss., and the most western known infesta- 
tion at Lake Arthur, in Jefferson Davis Parish, La. This insect is more abundant 
in the Elorala, Ala., area than in any other area; however, the population was 
great enough elsewhere to cause some damage to garden crops at Laurel, Miss., and 
Monroeville, “la. In the Elorala area approximately 1,000 acres of heavily in- 
fested land was taken out of cultivation in 193S. The larval population on this 
retired acreage would have reduced the stand to such an extent that a crop would 
have been unprofitable. Much of the retired acreage was kept clean of vegetation 
during the active season of the adult beetle and, as a result, the larval popula- 
tion in the fall of 193° was much less than it was the year before in these same 
ields. ^Notwithstanding the retirement from crops of 1,000 acres of the most 
eavily inf es ted land, many fields were seriously damaged by larvae. These areas 
ranged in size from a fe^ square yards to 10 acres. In many instances 3 plantings 
were made, but it was impossible to obtain a stand. The larvae in these areas 
e P ground completely denuded of vegetation until shortly before pupation 
occurred. The larvae are known to attack practically all field and garden crops 
