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The Mexican "bean "beetle by August 25 had extended its range eastward in Virgin: 
to Craig and Carroll Counties, being now nearly half way across the State. In Wes1 
Virginia it has advanced from the southwestern border of the State eastward to Mar- 
shall, Tyler, and Wetzel Counties, covering about three-quarters of the State. In 
Indiana it is only found along the southeastern border of the State in Floyd, Clark, 
and Jefferson Counties. In Kentucky it extends over practically the entire east on 
two-thirds of the State. In Ohio about the southern three-quarters of the State if 
infested, infestations ranging as far west as the southwestern corner of the State 
in Butler and Hamilton Counties, and northward to Hancock, TJayne, and Tuscarawas 
Counties. It has just invaded southwestern Pennsylvania, being found in Washington 
and Green Counties. 
The cotton leaf worm during the third week in August appeared at several points 
in Arkansas, and Madison Parish, la., while during the second week of the month it 
was reported from Alabama, The insect seems to be unusually abundant in Arkansas. 
The boll weevil as a whole does not seem to be as destructive as during 1923. 
The boll worm, on the other hand, is reported as generally more destructive in 
California and Georgia. 
In this number of the Bulletin is published a summary of the past ten years, 
observations on the abundance of the sugar cane borer in Louisiana. 
Bagworm is reported as generally on the increase in western Missouri and east- 
ern Kansas, and is also reported as doing damage in parts of Ohio, -rctt fit the Ohio 
River Basin the catalpa sphinx is causing considerable trouble. 
The elm leaf-beetle is worse than it has been for several years in western 
Connecticut and southeastern New York. It is also reported from Michigan, and fc£ 
reported for the first time from the State of California, where it has appeared in 
the Fresno district. 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN CANAPA FOR AUGUST, 1924 
The grasshopper situation in the Nicola Valley, B. C. , where there is an out- 
break of the roadside grasshopper, Camnula pellucida Scudder, and the lesser migra- 
tory grasshopper, Melanoplus atlanis Riley, is expected to assume more serious pro- 
portions in 1925. In the Thompson River Valley, B. C. , from Kamloops to Chase, 
there is a very heavy infestation of Melanoplus atlanis Riley. 
Grasshoppers are causing little trouble in Manitoba and southern Alberta this 
year. 
The eye-spotted bud-moth, Spilonota ocellana D. & S. , and the green bud moth, 
Argyronloce variegana Hbn. , have been abundant to an unusual degree in the Annaoolis 
Valley, N. S. 
.The fall cankerworm is gradually increasing in numbers throughout the Annapolif 
Valley, N. S. , and another outbreak is about due. 
