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PALL VIE3T70EM ( Hyphantria cunea Drury) 
South Carolina P, K. Harrison (June 15): The fall web worn is attacking 
pecan at Fairfax. 
Seorgia J. B. Gill (June 25): The fall webworn has been showing up in 
the pecan orchards of Georgia since the third week in May, With 
a sizeable first -brood as has occurred it is expected that the 
second-brood larvae will be quite abundant and damaging in un- 
sp rayed pecan orchards, 
Mississippi P.. W. Earned and assistants (June): One fall wobworn colony 
was found on pecan at Lucedale on June 3, The first specimens 
were observed at Centreville en June 9, at Moss Point on June 
15, and near Columbia on June 19, Several other colonies were 
noted since that tine at Pascagoula and vicinity, 
A MOTH BORER ( Synanthedon scitula Harr.) 
Mississippi II, Dietrich (June 22): The pecan borer ( Ae^eria scitula ) 
is doing sone damage to grafts on pecans near Avera. 
PHYLLOXERA' ( Phylloxera spp.) 
Mississippi R. W. Earned (June 19): Pecan twigs containing galls probably 
caused by P, devastatrix Perg, were collected at Natchez, on 
June 8, by Inspector W. L, Gray, He reported that these galls 
were very abundant on a large Schley pecan tree, 
Louisiana ¥. E. Hinds (June 23): The pecan phylloxera(P, caryaecaulis ) 
Pitch, has appeared in unusual numbers infesting many trees which 
are from 40 to 50 feet high and damaging some varieties which 
have hitherto appeared to be practically immune to their attack, 
-•-■■'■ \ A STIHK BUG ( Suschistus euschistoides Toll,) 
Georgia II, S. Adair (June 24): The brown stink bug is rather numerous 
in some pecan orchards in Albany and adjoining localities. 
ITymphs were observed earlier in the season feeding on a species 
of barley growing among Austrian peas which are used as a winter 
cover crop in pecan orchards, 
CITRUS 
PURPLE SCALE ( Lcpidosaphos beckii Uewm. ) 
Florida J. P. TTatson (June 22): .The purple scale ir. moderately 
abundant, perhaps more abundant than usual. Drought lias pre- 
vented the proper development of entomogenous fungi, 
COTTOEY-CUSIirOlT SCALE ( Icorya ipurchasi Mask.) 
Georgia ■ J. B. Gill (May 27): There have been reported infestations of 
the cottony-cushion scale in Albany, Thona.sville, Black shear, 
Claxton, and Savannah, 
