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CIGARETTE BEETLE ( Lasioderaa serricorne Fab.) 
Florida A., C. Morgan (June 23): During a recent trip to Florida I visited 
Tampa and interviewed a number of cigar manufacturers. It "is 
interesting to know that fumigation with hydrocyanic-acii gas 
is coming into use in Tampa, When the work was first started 
there, years ago> nothing was being done to control the cigarette 
beetles and recorrirnendations for fumigation met with little 
favor at the time, Th3 annual loss to Tampa cigar manufacturers 
from returned goods amounts to $75,000 to $100,000. 
GREEK JUNE BEETLE ( Cofin is nitida L, ) 
Tennessee . A„ C, Morgan (June 23): The grubworm, Cotinis nitida L. , was 
about as injurious as usual, a few beds being almost entirely 
uprooted by its activity, 
WIREWCRMS (Elateridae) 
Kentucky A C* Morgan (June 23): True wireworms are very widespread in 
the Burley region* centering around Lexington s and. scarcely 
a field following sod fails to show some infestation, 
EASTERN FIELD WIREWORM ( limonius agonus Say) 
Connecticut W, E. Britton (June 2): About a dozen growers at Windsor 
report injury,, One has 84 acres under cloth and 45 to 50 acres 
were destroyed and replanted, some of it twice. After several 
days cf hot weather most of the wirewcrms disappeared, probably 
going deeper into the soil. (See also under general feeders, ) 
Arizona and 
New Me.^ico 
A WEEVIL ( Trichobaris sp t ) 
A* C„ Morgan (June 23): Mr«, Joe Milam, now working in Arizona 
and New Mexico v has sent ir. tobacco stalks infested with an 
apparently unknown species of weevil larva. These specimens 
have been determined as Tricho bari .s sp„ by H. S» Earber. In 
the localities where this species was g'ollected Mr, Milam 
reports an infestation of 75 per cent, 
' - CRANE FLIES (Tiporlidae) 
Massachusetts A. I, Bourne (June 22): Dr., Fernaid visited a tobacco field just 
west of Amherst, in Hadley,, in response to a complaint of severe 
cutworm injury. Upon examination of the 'field he coi^ld find no 
cutworms and none cf the plants had been severed' from the root 
but the leaves were considerably riddled and in some cases the 
center bnds had been devoured so thai; probably no further 
development could take place* After considerable search he was 
able to find specimens of crane fly larvae. 
Connecticut W,, E* Britton (June 5): At Windsor newly-set plants are injured 
by being eaten into the side of the stems just below the surface 
of the ground. 
