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The oriental peach moth, though not abnormally destructive in 
the older infested territory, is new reported from as far north as Jack- 
sen and Williamson Counties, 111., rnd quite serious in Greene County, 0. 
The imported cabbage worm is reported as causing very serious 
losses in northern Illinois and southern Wis. Less serious injury is re- 
ported from western New York State and the Birmingham district of Ala. 
The cabbage maggot is more serious than it has been for many years 
in central and western New York. 
The velvet bean caterpillar is reported for the first time as a 
primary pest of peanuts in Fia. Usually this insect moves into peanuts 
from infested velvet bean fields. 
Hecent inspection in Ala. indicates that the campaign to control 
the sweet-potato weevil is promisingly successful. 
The newly discovered wireworm Heteroderes laurentii Guer. is re- 
corded as showing what appears to be a preference for certain varieties 
of sweet potato in Ala. 
The changa is doing more damage than it has in the past several 
years in Fla. 
A very heavy outbreak of the semitropical armyworm, covering prac- 
tically all of the Florida peninsula, has been under way throughout the 
month. In addition to defoliating its native food plant, it has done 
much damage to ornamentals and castor beans. This is the heaviest out- 
break of this insect that has occurred since 1917. 
Brood II of the periodical cicada, the first large brood recorded 
from the Middle Atlantic States, reappeared this spring, This brood oc- 
curs, in general, in the territory immediately east of Brood I. A few 
doubtful records have been made in past years from Indiana., Illinois, 
and Michigan, but not one of these was confirmed by this year's appear- 
ance. In general, the brood was centered about northern New Jersey, 
southern New York, and south-central Connecticut. The records from the 
territory southward to North Carolina were very scattering and the col- 
onies were comparatively small. 
Brood XXVII of the tridecim race, recorded for the first time in 
1902 from Franklin County, Miss., and again recorded from that locality 
in 1915, in which year it was also recorded from Chicot and Philips 
Counties, Ark., appeared this yea.r at a single point and with a single 
specimen at Yanoo City, Miss. 
The summary number of the Insect Pest Survey Bulletin which will 
appear in December will include a complete list rnd map of all of the 
localities so far recorded for these two broot' . 
