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The cotton leafworm is now reported as generally prevalent throughout the 
cotton "belt. A slight amount of control work is being attempted in a few of the 
States "but generally it is believed that the cotton is so far advanced that the 
leaf worm can do hut little damage. 
A very heavy emergence of the cicada Tibicen r esonans Walker is reported 
from the Tampa, region of Florida, the outbreak 'being in intensity very similar to 
an emergence of the periodical cicaaa. 
The oagworm is abundant and destructive over the greater part of Ohio, sou- 
thern Indiana, and parts of Kentucky, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Mississippi. 
Practically all the locust trees in southern Ohio, are browned by the locust 
hi spa. 
OUTSTANDING- ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES -117 CANADA FOR SEPTEMBER, 1924 
The eye-spotted bud-moth, S nilon ota oceilana D. & S. , occurred in outbreak 
form in Kings County, Nova Scotia, and was abundant and destructive in unsprayed 
orchards in southwestern Ontario. 
The lesser appl® worm, L as pe y res ia nrun i vora Walsh, proved very injurious 
in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, this season. 
Leafhoppcrs, principally the s5x-spotted species, C icadula se xnotata Fallen, 
have caused very severe injury to oats and barley over considerable areas in north- 
central Saskatchewan. 
The rosy aphis, An urap his ros eus Baker, has been unusually abundant and 
destructive in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. 
The grape-berry moth, PcJychrjJSis vit_eana Clemens, has come into prominence 
as a grape pest in the Niagara distiict of Ontario. 
The currant fruit-fly, Epcchra canadensis Loew, is so injurious in southern 
interior British Columbia as to make it impossible to grow currants and gooseberries 
commercially. 
The peach worm, j^arsia lineatel la Ztllcr, is abundant in the lower Okanagan 
Valley, B. C. , causing considerable loss to peachss and prunes. 
The wheat-stem sawfly, Cenhu s ductus Norton, is not as plentiful in Mani- 
toba this season as it has been during the last few years. 
The infestation "oy the cabbage aphis, Brevicoryn e^ (Ap his ) brass icae L. , in 
the Okanagan Valley, B. C. , has been general, causing considerable loss. 
The onion maggot, Hylemyia. ant i qua Meigen, has been unusually plentiful in 
the Okanagan Valley, B. C. , this season, and the onion thrips-, Thrips t abaci Lind. , 
caused considerable loss. 
