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The bean leaf-beetle is unusually abundant in Maryland, Illinois, and 
Mississippi, in some places doing considerable damage to garden beans. 
Unusual damage by the striped cucumber- beetle is reported from Long Island 
N. Y., tidewater Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and New 
Mexico. 
The boll weevil is present in threatening numbers in parts of Texas and 
Mississippi. The winter mortality was much higher during the past winter than 
during the winter of 1921-22 in Oklahoma. 
The tobacco flea-beetle is reported as seriously injuring seed beds in 
Kentucky and Maryland. 
The periodical cicada, Brood XIV, is appearing in scattering numbers in 
parts of Maryland, and a single individual was taken at Maywood, Va. Brood XXII 
is appearing in a full emergence in the four southwestern counties of Mississippi. 
The yellow-fever mosquito is appearing unusually early this year in parts 
of Louisiana. This pest has also been report3d from Galveston and Houston, Tex. 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN CANADA "FOB T e*Y, 1923. 
The close of May finds the season still two weeks later than 1922 in central 
and eastern Canada but as much earlier in the West and Pacific Coast sections. In 
Alberta wheat seeding was about complete by May 15, being somewhat earlier than 
normal owing to the soil moisture conditions -while plant growth and insect develop- 
ment are about as usual. In Nova Scotia the season is later than at any time 
during the past ten years. 
Stem mothers of the raspberry aphid, '■ Anhis rubiphila Patch ' , which is one o: 
the most important factors in the dissemination of raspberry mosaic , a disease very 
prevalent in northern Ontario, are more plentiful than usual in the raspberry plan- 
tations of the Niagara District. 
The pear-leaf blister mite is extremely prevalent on apples this season in 
the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia. Its spread on apples has been phenomenal 
during the past two years; pears in the same orchards commonly being left uninfested 
The glassy cutworm, '. Sidemia devastator Brace , is common and widely dis- 
tributed in the vicinity of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, this year. The larvae are 
found feeding on the roots of the wild barley, a weed of cultivated pasture lands. 
The wireworm, Agriotes mane us Say, is the most numerous injurious species 
in the Dartmouth vegetable-growing area of Nova Scotia. 
The forest tent caterpillar, . Malaeosoma erosa Stretch , which defoliated 
forty square miles of aspen poplar in the Moose Mountain Forest Reserve, Saskat- 
chewan, in 1922, is present again in large numbers and the entire Reserve is threat- 
ened with serious defoliation. The outbreak will apparently be general throughout 
a large part of Southern Saskatchewan and Alberta. 
