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Ophion ancyloneura Cam. specimens were found attacking curculionid 
larvae on March 15, 1930. (Det. R. A. C.) (A very peculiar host for an 
Ophion. R. A. C.) 
Hadronotus brasiliensis Lima was reported attacking pentatomid eggs on 
March 21, 1933. (Det. C. F. W. Muesebeck.) 
INSECT CONDITIONS IN EGYPT DURING- NOVEMBER 1933 - FEBRUARY- 1934 
By Arthur H. Rosenfeld 
Botanical and Plant Breeding Section, Ministry of Agriculture, 
El Giza, Egypt. 
The peasants of the Kharga and - Dekhla Oases complained that the weevil 
Tanymecus musculus Fahr. was gnawing stems of "barley and wheat; it was 
controlled with poisoned bran used for grasshoppers. Feb. 4, 1934. 
The spiny bollworm (Earias) attacked cotton this past year more severely 
than usual, infestations as high as 12 percent "being common around Bilkas, 
Sherbin, and Abu Masoud, all in Bihera Province. Feb. 4, 1934. 
Dr. Ismail Fahmy, in charge of borer investigations for the Ministry, 
reports that he has found Pyrausta nubilalis Hbn. on maize at Fakous, Ikyad, 
and Samaana, all in Sharkia Province, an infestation of 10 to 15 percent. 
(Feb. 4, 1934.) 
Pyrausta nubilalis Hbn. was reported "by Entomologist Ismail Fahmy on 
December 25, 1933, as infesting about 3 percent of the maize at Rosetta and 
Port Said, thus greatly extending the known eastward range of the European 
corn "borer. No reports of infestation "by this insect have "been made in 
Palestine. Fahmy has recently made a systematic search for it, starting from 
Mansoura to Kafr-el-Arab on the east side of the Damietta "branch of the Nile, 
and from Talkha to Kafr~el-Battikh on the west side. On the east side he 
found the first infested area at Mahalet Inshak (about 12 miles north of 
Mansoura) and from there northwards an infestation ranging from 2 to 10 per- 
cent. On the west side he found it in all the area examined, infestation 
ranging from 2 to as high as 20 percent. The highest infestation was around 
Markaz Sherbin, this area averaging about 15 percent. 
Eriosoma lanigerum Hausm. was collected on apples from Assiut on 
November 15, 1933. 
We have two borers, Sesamia cretica Led. and Chilo simplex Butl. , 
neither of which has done much damage this year, except in one locality where 
old corn stalks were piled up for sale during the winter in the midst of 
cane fields and thus were afforded ideal hibernating conditions. Collected 
November 15, 1933. 
Anacridium aegyptium L. early in October attacked some cotton fields at 
Ezbet Khourshid, near Alexandria, where it was controlled, according to the 
Entomological Section, by hand picking in the early morning, no serious 
damage occurring. In Assiut Province, Upper Egypt, this species has the 
habit of collecting in large numbers in the fall in orchards and on high ground 
but only a few were observed in October 1933 f the Government entomologists 
