from the Atlantic and East Central States. Very heavy infestations 
are reported from Wisconsin and Missouri. They were also damaging al- 
falfa in the Southwest and the Great Basin. 
Boll weevil survival is reported as considerably higher than usual 
throughout the entire boll weevil area. In south-central and north- 
central Texas higher populations passed the winter successfully than has 
been the case in the last l6 years. 
Considerable damage to young cotton plants by flea beetles is reported 
from Georgia. 
The beet arnywo rn is reported as severely damaging cotton in Arizona. 
A larva of the cotton leaf worm was collected from cotton 25 miles 
southwest of Mat amor os, Mexico, on May 9. First report on this insect 
for the season. 
Heavy infestations of eankorworm with spotted outbreaks where com- 
plete defoliation occurred were reported from the Now England States and 
Middle Atlantic States westward to Minnesota and the Dakotas and south- 
ward to Tennessee and Oklahoma* 
Elm lea.f beetle was generally annoying in. households in New England 
and the Middle Atlantic States. . Egg laying was observed in Maryland on 
April 24 and in New Jersey on May 7» 
Unusually heavy infestation of ornamental junipers by the juniper 
webworn was reported from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware* 
