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The potato flea "beetle ras generally prevalent ever New England and 1 \ 
York, extending southward to the Disttict of Columbia. 
The cabbage maggot -as reported as generally destructive from Massachusetts 
westward to Wisconsin, 
k rather unusual attack on onion "by the fall armyworm is reported from 
Mi ssissippi. 
The root-knot nematode is reported for the first time from the State of 
Wisconsin "here it is doing serious damage to cannery peas. 
The boll weevil situation has not materially changed since our last 
report, except for a heavy infestation which has developed in many localities 
in Louisiana. 
The cotton flea is generally more serious over the southern rart of t 
cotton belt than normal. 
The rose chafer is generally belo^/ normal over the New England an ile 
Atlantic States. The only report of the occurrence of this pect in seri< 
numbers is from Nebraska. 
3rood XVII of the Periodical Cicada has been reported as appearing 
in Doniphan County, Kansas, about IOC miles north of the nearest recorded 
locality for this brocd in Car-s County, Missouri. 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICriLiZBATUEES IN CANADA, FCB JUNE, 1926 
Infestations of the forest tent caterpillar are ry ar.d extensive 
in parts of southern and central Saskatchewan. Reports of its depredati 
nave also been received from the Peace River section of Alberta, and''fsaa a 
the district south and east of Edmonton. 
The eastern tent caterpillar showed a marked increase this year in 
sections of the Ottawa River Valley and in parts of southern Quebec. In the 
St. John River Valley, New Brunswick, in the Fredericton district, bet 
species of tent caterpillars are reported as very scarce. 
The European pine shoot moth infestation i s t rn Ontario is mere 
or less general, but light and scattered, all infested rial found is 
destroyed. 
Control investigations have been s J - on the beech coccus, : "-S 
in outbreak form thr mt the greater part of Nova Scotia; on the 
ice budworm outbreak in C Ireton Island, and on the western cedar box ■ 
outbreak on Vancouver Island and the coast of British Columbia. 
The maple leaf-cutter, \ ifoliella Fitch , .is en the 
inc^easy in Huntingdon Coon ec» 
