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A MEALYBUG' ( PseudocoCcus sp.)/ ‘ ' 
South Carolina, 0, L, Cartwright (September 23): Of consider able importance on 
apple in Clens on. College orchard, .......... 
PEACH 
PLUM CUECULIO ( Conotracholus nenuphar Hbst, ) 
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Massachusetts. A, I. Bourne (September 22): In many orchards more troublesome 
to control than usual. Seasonal factors apparently made it more difficult 
to adjust treatments to its life history, 
Tennessee, G, M. Bentley (August 30): Second. brood on peaches serious, whore 
treatments were not given at the proper time. 
Georgia. 0. I. Snapp (September 20) : Jarring records show a considerable in- 
crease in .adults in peach orchards at Port Valley, central Georgia, during 
the period August 21-28, owing to the emergence of second-generation in- 
dividuals from the' soil. Infestation heavier than that of an average year. 
Most of the adults have left the trees for places of hibernation. Popula- 
tion in hibernation at the beginning of the 1939-^0 season heavier than 
average, 
ORIENTAL EEC IT MOTH ( Graph61itha moles t a Busck) 
Massachusetts. A. I. Bourne (September 22): Reports indicate that on early 
varieties of peach the infestation Was somewhat lighter than usual and de- 
cidedly lighter than that of last year. Reports oh later varieties not 
complete. ’ * ' 
M, M. Cole (September 5): Considerable dying back of new-growth twigs 
in the spring at Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, and injury to fruit 
later, but damage light. 
South Carolina. 0. L. Cartwright (September 23): Above average in abundance at 
Clems on during the season, 
Georgia, T, L, Bissell (September 6): Invested shoots from peach trees sent in 
with larvae from Cordole, southern Georgia. At Griffin, central Georgia, 
recently found in Photinia serrula.ta and in English cherry-laurel (Laura- 
cerasus off icinalis ). 
Mississippi, C. Lyle (September 25): Injured peach twigs received from Attala 
County on August 17, and injured apple and peach twigs from Winston County 
on September 18. Reports of injury to peach received from Holmes and Jones 
Counties, from southern Mississippi, and from the Meridian district, 
Ohio. E. W. Mendenhall (September 10): Injurious in apple fruits in central 
Ohio, especially where no control measures have been used. 
