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legume WEEVIL, OE EGYPTIAN ALFALFA WEEVIL 
In April 1939 » specimens of a weevil not heretofore reported as occurring 
in this country were collected in the Yuma Valley, near Yuma, Ariz., and later 
identified as Hyper a hrunneipennis Boh., which had originally "been described 
from Egypt. In order to determine the extent to which this weevil had spread, 
and also obtain information as to its potential importance as an economic pest, 
a. survey was begun in January 1940. Inspections were made of alfalfa and sour 
clover throughout the alfalfa— growing regions of the southern half of Calif orni 
southern Nevada, Arizona, southern How Mexico, and western Texas. The results 
of this survey indicated a, slight increase in the area previously established 
as infested in the vicinities of Yuma, Ariz., and Winter Haven, Imperial . County 
Calif. A small, light infestation was also discovered at Tempo, Ariz. (B. M. 
Gaddis, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
After aestivating throughout the summer .and fall months, adults of the 
Egyptian alfalfa, weevil began migrating to fields in Yuma, Valley late in Hovem- 
ber. Migration was virtually completed by mid-December, but field populations 
appeared considerably smaller than last year. Consequently, damage during the 
winter and spring of 194l now appears unlikely. Earliest emerging adults began 
ovipositing during the first week of December and virtually all were ovipositin 
by the latter part of that month. Rainy, cool weather during the latter half 
of December, however, minimized egg production and retarded hatching to the ex- 
tent tha.t no larvae had yet appeared in the field on December 27. (C, M. 
Packard, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
SUGARCANE BORER 
The winter of 1939~40 was one of the coldest on record in the area infeste 
by the sugarcane borer and the coldest in Louisiana since that of 1898-99* 
Borers surviving the winter in sugarcane in Louisiana were only about one-tenth 
of the number surviving the winter of 1938-39 , which was about a normal Louisi- 
ana winter. Borer survival in southern Florida wan not so much reduced, althon 
the infestation wan below normal at the time limited examinations v/e re made in 
that area in September, in cooperation with J. W. Wilson of the Florida, Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station. The borer population surviving in rice stubs in 
Louisiana was found by W. A, Douglas to be less than half of that surviving a 
normal winter. Borers emerged from hibernation in Louisiana from 2 to 3 weeks 
later than normal. Infestation by the first— generation borer in sugarcane was 
about one-twelfth of that for the same generation in 1939. and for the second 
generation it was about one-tenth of that in 1939* Based on a, survey made 
jointly with A. L. Dugas of the Louisiana, Agricultural Experiment Station at 
harvest time, the percentage of joints bored in Louisiana in 1940 was estimated 
to be 5*3* Estimated percentages of joints bored in 5 previous years boned on 
similar surveys were: 1939, 19*7; 1938, 15*9; 1937, 16.1; 1936, 8.7; and 1935, 
8.1. (C. M. Packard, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
PARLATORIA CHIl'TENSIS MARLATT 
In May 19 40, infestations of a diaspine * sca.le, Parlatoria chinensis Ma,rla,t J 
not heretofore reported as occurring in this country, were discovered in St. 
