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ously infested as the western portion. In Louisiana infestation has "been com- 
plete for at least 10 lays, however, owing to "spotted" conditions of weevil in- 
festations some fields are still making cotton. In Mississippi U0 per cent of 
of the squares are punctured in the hill counties, being a marked increase over 
those infested in the earlier part of the month; the weevils were four times as 
abundant on August 20 as they were on this same date last year. The flooded 
areas of the D e lta are still practically tree of the weevil. In Alabama the 
weevil has continued to multiply in enormous numbers in the south-central part 
of the State, and some fields in prt of the Piedmont region will not yield over 
50 bolls of cotton to the acre. Georgia -.all harvest a very poor crop of cot tor 
over the southern two-thirds of the State; the loss is estimated at from M-0 to 
50 per cent, while hundreds of acres will not be picked; damage decreases pro- 
gressively northward. In South Carolina the average infestation in the vicinity 
of Florence is 77- 3^ per cent; weevil infestation, however, was generally light 
in this State and found only in scattered areas in the lower and middle Piedmont 
section. In ITorth Carolina increasing damage "oy this insect is reported through 
out the cotton section, damage being much more serious in the southern counties. 
ITo commercial damage oy cotton flea hoppers is reported from -.the cotton 
belt -1th the exception of a few isolated fields in parts of Texas. 
The cotton leaf worm is decidedly later than usual this year; consequent I: 
little damage is to be anticipated to deciduous fruit and grapes in the north- 
ern States, and the cotton is so far advanced that but little damage can result 
from the feeding of the larvae. 
CUTSTAivlJllvC- ENTOMOLOGICAL FBATM3S Ik C^ T ADA POk AUGUST, 1927 
_he Mexican bean beetle -as found in Canada for the first time on July 
20, at Cedar Springs, Kent County, Ontario, north of Lake Erie. Subsequent 
scouting has revealed the insect at numerous points in Kent and Essex Counties, 
and isolated collections have been made in Ha.lton, York, and Peel Comities, ; 
northwest of Lake Ontario. 
Scouting to determine the distribution and spread of the European corn 
borer in Ontario and southern Quebec is now under way. Preliminary scouting 
work has also been started in the Maritime Provinces -.-.here this insect has not 
yet been found. 
A -ide spread outbreak of the beet webworm occurred in central and south- 
ern Sadkatche-ran, economic damage chiefly being confined to gardens. A patchy 
outbreak occurred on sugar beets in southern Alberta, but caused no serious lose, 
Reports from central Saskatchewan indicate a heavier and more vide spread 
infestation of the red turnip beetle than has occurred for many years. This 
species was also reported as Quite severe in the Bulltley valley, British Columbi.- 
