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in 1930. Associated with this outbreak was a very marked increase of per- 
centage of parasitism compared with last year. During September there was 
some stripping of soybeans in southern Louisiana and slight feeding on this 
crop in parts of Oklahoma. As a whole, the season was one of comparative- 
ly slight damage by this insect. 
A BRUCHtD 
During June Mr. 1. J, Bo.tt'imer, of the entomological section of the 
Food and Drug Administration, collected a large number of specimens of 
Bruchus "brachial is Fahraeus from a patch of vetch at Haddon Heights, IT. J. 
This sxiecies has also teen found in infested vetch pods at Moorestov.n, 
Vincentovn, Four Mile, and Newtonville, N. J.; Kent County, Del.; and Wi- 
comico County, Md. This bruchid is one of the important "bean weevils 
known to attach vetch in Durone. It is apparently the first of these to 
"become established in the United Stat 
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CODLING MOTH 
During the very early spring reports were received of low vinter mor- 
tality of the codling moth ( Camocansa -pomonell a L. ) from the New England, 
Middle Atlantic, South Atlantic, and southern part of the- East Central 
States.' Throughout the Middle Atlantic and South Atlantic States this in- 
sect appeared to he normally abundant. The first observation of pupation 
was reported March 30 from South Carolina, April 3 from Missouri, April 15 
from Georgia, April 12 from southern Illinois, April 14 from central Illi- 
nois, April 13 from Nebraska, and Anril 21 from Pennsylvania and Maryland. 
In the Rocky Mountain States the insect vras reported as quite generally 
abundant and eggs sustained but slight winter mortality. During the lat- 
ter half of May adults began emerging in the Middle Atlantic States; in 
the southern part of this section the emergence was considerably later 
than last year. In the- East Central States emergence occurred at about 
the same time as it did last year. In the Pacific Northwest emergence oc- 
curred during the first v-eek in May, <hilc in California the peak of 
emergence in the Antelope Valley was reached on April 10. Trie first side- 
worm injury was reported from Massachusetts on June 15. About this time 
eggs were reported hatching in the Hudson River Valley in Nov York, and 
by the third week of June they were hatching - in numbers in western New 
York. Side-worm injury had started in southern New Jersey by June 9; 
and by the end of June unusually heavy infestations were being reported 
from the Hudson River Valley of New York southward to Georgia, with simi- 
lar heavy infestations over the greater part of the East Central States 
westward to Nebraska and Kansas. Band counts made in western Illinois 
during July indicated that the population was ten times as great as it was 
at the sane time last year, and in eastern Illinois about 25 times as 
great. In the Pacific Northwest the situation was more serious than it 
has been for several years. 
