RAISIN MOTH ( Ephestia figulilella Greg.) - . , 
California, D. F. .Barnes (April 15)t Bait traps put out in two vine- 
yards and one plum orchard took moths Beginning April 5* Gravid females 
appeared in the collections of April 12, In 1939 first moth was 
captured on April "I* ■ I 
PAPAYA 
PAPAYA PRUITFLY ( Toxotrypaha curvlcauda Gerst. ) 
Florida, H. Spencer (April l6): Full-grown larvae went through the January 
freeze in the east-coast section without harm, where temperatures 
reached 27-5® * ^tnd the plants were killed to the ground. Adults 
were reared in March from larvae in immature fruit taken from frozen 
plants. 
TRUCK-CROP, IN SECTS 
VEGETABLE WEEVIL ( Listroderes ohliquus Klug) . 
South Carolina, N. Allen and D. B, Lieux (April 2): Severa.1 small larvae 
observed feeding on tobacco plants in a bed at the Pee Dee Eacperiment 
Station, in Florence County. Only a relatively small number of plants 
injured. (April 18); A few larvae observed feeding on tomato plants 
near Florence, Larvae collected near Florence, tunneliiig the stems 
of large turnip plants that had produced oeed sta,lks. (April 24): 
Since April 2 two addi tionaf' plant beds of tobacco observed to be 
infested. Although the insect apparently feeds on all the leaves of 
the plants attacked, the bud is frequently destroyed, thus making the 
plant almost worthless for transplanting to the field. 
Alabama, J, M. Robinson (April 17)j Larvae observed on cabbage at Wadley, 
in Randolph County, 
Mississippi, C. Lyle and assistants (April 23): Larvae received from Forres 
C'^unty, and reports of injury from Attala County, from the Meridian area 
and from the southeastern part of the State, 
Louisiana, C. O.Eddy (April 25)j Reported from a number of sources. 
