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A very interesting report was received from Mr. R. R. McLean, through Mr. 
T. D. Urbahns to the eff e.ct that Scaptomyz a terminal is Loew ( Drosoohila terminalis 
Loew) has destroyed 20 carload.s of cauliflower in San: Diego 'County, California. 
This species has never previously been recorded as a serious pest. The only re-' 
cords we have are: "on radish leaves", Berkeley, Calif., White Mountains, N. H., 
Mesilla Park, New Mexico, and Sitka, Alaska. 
In the western half of the cotton belt there is little likelihood of more than 
local damage by the boll weevil unless reasonably rainy weather prevails during the 
next 30 days or more. The cotton aphid is reported as generally prevalent over 
the cotton belt extending from Tennessee and Illinois southwestward over Texas. 
A rather serious outbreak of one of the tiger moths, Apant es is o it ho no Stkr. , 
is reported from eastern and southern Mississippi, and the beet armyworm is very 
seriously damaging the cotton in south- central California. 
Tobacco has been seriously injured by cutworms and webworms in the southern 
tobacco belt and the worst outbreak of the eastern field wireworm ever recorded in 
the shade-growing tobacco section of the Connecticut Valley is reported this year. 
In this latter region crane flies are also seriously infesting the tobacco. 
An undetermined species of Trichobaris is reported as attacking tobacco in 
Arizona and New Mexico. 
The lime tree spanworm is generally prevalent and in places seriously numerous 
in the forest areas of New England and New York State. 
We have failed to confirm the occurrence of Brood XXIV of the periodical cicada 
in the southern Mississippi Valley and Brood XVI in Nebraska. 
A leaf beetle, belonging to the Colasp is orunnea complex, is defoliating pine 
over a very considerable area in Mississippi and Louisiana, the Louisiana infesta- 
tion extending over 15 miles. 
The sticktight flea infestation was greater in southwestern Texas this spring 
than it has been for many years and the losses in egg production and young chickens 
were very heavy. 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FMUBES IN CANADA FOR JUNE, 1925 
The most striking entomological feature in Canada for June is the great preva- 
lence of cutworms of various species in aiirost every province of the Dominion, par- 
ticularly in the Prairie Provinces. 
In the Prairie Provinces extensive areas are infested; the red-backed cutworm 
being the principal species in Manitoba and Saskatchewan and the pale western cut- 
worm in Alberta. Although the infestation in Manitoba is widespread, severe damage 
is largely localized, but in Saskatchewan the worst damage is occurring over a broad 
belt of country extending from North Battleford and Prince Albert in the north to 
Regina and Yorlcton in the south. The area most affected in Alberta is situated 
northeast of Calgary, centering on Morrin and Drumheller, where much of the grain 
crops have been destroyed. 
