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rathor severe but local loss to cotton growers in Kern and Tulare Coun- 
ties. Last week it seemed that a considerable quantity of cotton in that 
area would bo destroyed, but for reasons unascertained almost the entire 
'population of worms has been killed. 
Mexico. C. S. Rude (May 2S): Considerable damage is being done at Tlahua- 
lilo, Durango, by a larva very much like the beet armyworm (L. cxigua ). 
FOREST A IT D SHADE -TREE INSECTS 
PERIODICAL CICADA ( Magicicada soptonaec im L.) 
ITorth Carolina. Z. P. Metcalf (May 25): The 17-year locust has been reported 
from Vienna, Eorsyth County, and Pinoy Crook and Laurel Springs, Alleghany 
County, and from Surry County. (June U) : I have just returned from the 
northwc stern part of the State and I have found them at the following 
places: ITorth of Mount Airy and at Dob sons, in Surry County; northwest of 
State Road in Wilkes County; near Roaring Gap, in both Wilkes and Alleghany 
Counties; near Sparta, Whitehead, and Twin Oaks in Alleghany County; in 
Ash County; west of Deep Cap in Watauga County; and in western Wilkes 
County west of the Yadkin River. 
R. W. Leiby (June 3): The periodical cicada was present in Watauga 
and Wilkes Counties late in May. 
Virginia. W. J. Schoeno (May 25): The 17-year locust is appearing in Augusta 
County west of Staunton, and in Roanoke, Franklin, and Wythe Counties. 
H. G-. Walker (May 25): The newspapers in ITorfolk report that tho 
cicadas are appearing in great abundance in the southwestern part of the 
State.' 
2. P. Metcalf (Juno k) : The periodical cicada has been reported 
from tho following Counties: Wythe, Pulaski, Montgomery, Roanoke, Frank- 
lin, and Pittsylvania. 
West Virginia. F. W. Craig (May 25): Tho periodical cicada was reported on 
good authority as emerging at White Sulphur Springs on May 22. 
GrIAIIT APEID ( L^ngi stigma car vac Karr.) 
West Virginia. P. W. Craig (May 23): This is one of the outstanding posts 
of the month. It has been observed on sycamoro. and linden in Charleston 
and Huntington. Several people have complained of the honeydcr drip- 
ping from the trees. 
FOREST TE1TT CATERPILLAR ( Malacosoma disstria Hbn. ) 
Mississippi. E, W. Gcmmer (May 10): The forest tent caterpillar is defoli- 
ating red and blackjack oak, doguood, red gum, and black gam in Pearl 
River County. 
