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Boll. weevil extremely numerous throughout the Cotton Belt, and 
doing serious damage to top and late-planted cotton. 
Cotton leaf worm increasing rapidly and in many cases doing consid- 
erable ragging of cotton, and in southern Texas serious damage. 
Bollworm damaging cotton from Georgia southward and around the Gulf 
region through Texas and Arizona with serious damage in many places. 
Pink "bollworm has "been found in Kleberg, Nueces, and Brooks Counties, 
Tex. Five new counties have been placed under quarantine. 
Leaf aphids arc unusually abundant throughout the entire Cotton 
Belt, being particularly numerous in areas whore dusting has been carried on. 
The fall webworm was generally abundant throughout Hew England, 
Middle Atlantic, and So ith Atlantic States, westward to Ohio and Tennessee, 
and arou..d the Gulf to Texas. 
The forest tent caterpillar in New England and New York has seriously 
injured large numbers of red oaks and maples, this being the third year 
that heavy infestations occurred in that region. 
Gypsy moth infestations are generally less severe than they were 
last year in the New England area. 
Elm leaf beetle very abundant throughout New England and New York, 
with reports of local damage southward to Virginia and in the Ohio River 
Valley. 
A serious outbreak of the southern pine beetle is occurring from 
southern Maryland to eastern North Carolina. 
Quite a little damage has occurred to lawns in Connecticut, New York, 
and Pennsylvania cy the hairy chinch bug. Similar damage by Blissus 
insularis Barber was reported from Florida. 
Very heavy outbreaks of mosquitoes were reported from Connecticut, 
Massachusetts, and New Jersey. 
Thirty- throe cases of P.&cky Mountain spotted fever, with eleven 
deaths, have been reported so far this year from Maryland. Seventeen 
cases of this diseaso wore reported the first two weeks in August from 
Virginia. 
Penthaleus major Duges, a mite, which attacks peas in Australia 
is recorded from California in this number of the Survey Eulletin. 
