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some houses in Holmes, Monroe, Montgomery, Pike, and Yazoo Counties, 
as well as in southwestern part of the State, during the last week 
in May and the first two weeks in June. Specimens of Crematogaster 
lineolata Say reported as being numerous in a house and on trees and 
fences in Tallahatchie County. Specimens received on May 22. 
Oklahoma. F. A. Fenton (June 20): The red harvester ant ( Pogonomyrmex 
barbatus P. Smith) reported from Clinton, Custer County. 
L. B. Ray (June 12): Ants, Solenopsis xyloni , were sent in by 
Ray from Edmond, June 5* Infesting gardens and houses. 
Texas. R. K. Pletcher (June 22): Red harvester ant reported in Castro 
County on May 22, and in Bexar County on June l6. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (June 20): Western harvester ant (P. occidentalis 
Cress.) reported as making disfiguring hills in a yard in Hitchcock 
County on May 25* Specimens of the basement ant, Lasius inter .jectus 
Mayr, were sent from Douglas County on June 13. Pound under cement 
walk, as well as along the wall of cement blocks in the basement of 
a house. On May 23 common black garden ant, Formica fusca L., was 
reported as very abundant in a Custer County garden, especially 
among the strawberry roots. 
Arizona. ,E. R. Tinkham (March 30) : A snail black ant about i inch long, 
in order to get at the honey glands of peach on the inside walls 
of the receptacle, snipped off about half the anthers at their bases 
and then removed the pistil and ovary completely. J. K. Hale variety 
with small flowers suffered greatest damage. Control measures 
saved the greater part of the peach crop from being destroyed. 
Larger varieties such as Elberta and Mayflower with large blossoms and 
heavier ovaries and pistils, were not severely injured. 
WHARF BORER (Nacerda melanura L.) 
Massachusetts. A. I. Bourne (June 24): Specimens of the wharf borer 
were collected in timber in the cellar of a building in Boston. 
DRUG STORE WEEVIL (Stegobium panic eum L.) 
New York. R. E. Horsey (June): A number of the weevils found in 
herbarium specimens in a herbarium at Rochester. (Det. by P. A. 
Readio, of Ithaca.) Larvae believed to be. from the same, did 
considerable damage to dried specimens of trees and shrubs. As 
many as 15 larvae found in one flower cluster. They also ate 
cover papers, mounting cards, young leaves and stems, as well as 
dried fruits. Noted for the first time last winter, 1938-39* 
