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various States are as follows: Georgia, *+.U; Florida, U,2; Alabama, 0»5? 
Louisiana, 1.0; South. Carolina, 9»S; and southeastern Texas,- 1.6. The death 
loss was even no re markedly reduced. In the Southwest in 1935 observations 
indicated that the primary screw worm fly was able to overwinter, at least 
as far noth as Uvalde, Tex., as infestations occurred in January and Febru- 
ary in that locality. The first cases in t he vicinity of Menard, Tex. , were 
observed during the first half of April. Owing to the mild winter and sub- 
sequent unusually favorable climatic conditions for fly propagation, the 
pest increased in enormous numbers, causing the most serious loss"- among live- 
stock experienced in recent years. Fairly authentic data obtained from 
ranchmen in this State show that in certain classes of livestock from l6 
to 25 percent of the animals were infested, with a mortality rate of about 
6 percent among the infested stock. In New l.iexico, Ari zona, California, 
Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas the screw worm was unusually abundant and the 
losses were comparatively heavy. Outbreaks occurred in many localities in 
Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Indiana, and Kentucky. In these States 
many thousands of animals were infested and a good many were killed. These 
outbreaks were apparently sta.rted by shipments of infested animals into 
these States, mainly from the Southwest. After being introduced into these 
new areas, the fly was able to maintain itself and, by natural dissemination 
and the intrastate shipment of animals, the infestation spread rapidly from 
the points of introduction. (F. C. Bishopp, Bureau of Entomology and Plant 
Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
HOUSE CRICKET' 
During 1935 the house cricket was reported as being extremely 
numerous in city dumps and houses at Lyons, Utica, and Auburn, 17. Y. , 
Little F a lls, IT. J., Uiles, Mich., in the northeastern section of Washington, 
D. C. , and at Clarendon and Lyon Park, Va. In all these localities the 
crickets bred to large numbers in the dumps and later, during the August- 
October period, flew or crawled in swarms into nearby houses, making a nuis- 
ance of themselves by crawling everywhere , by their chirping, and by des- 
tructive attacks on shoes, clothing, rugs, drapes, umbrella covers, and other 
fabrics,, (E, A. Back, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
A SCALE INSECT 
A scale insect, Lepidosaphes ha Hi Green, was discovered on Frunus spp, 
and Amygdalu s spp. in the grounds of the United States Plant Introduction 
Gardens at Chico, Butte County, Calif., on February 5. 193^« An eradication 
campaign was immediately inaugurated and a report in June 1935 indicated that 
the insect had. been completely wiped out. Foreign literature on the species 
is limited to the paper published in 1923 by E.E. Green, recording the origi- 
nal description from specimens collected near Giza, Egypt. 
Correction . — The last two lines of the note on cabbage insects by C. 0. Bare 
in Insect Pest Survey Bulletin, vol. 15, no. S, p. 379, (October 1935) should 
be corrected to read: Striped cabbage worm is almost if not the principal 
pest of cabbage in western North C a rolina. It has never been seen on cabb; 
at Charleston, S. C. 
