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PEA WEEVIL ( Bruchus pi so ran L.) 
Oregon. D. C. Mote (July 23): There is a, heavier infestation of the pea weevil 
in the Willamette Valley this year than ever before. 
CLOVER SEED CHALCID ( Brachophagus funeb ris How.) 
North Dakota. J. A. Munro (July 18): The chalcis fly was reported to have de- 
stroyed 20 per cent of a bin of alfalfa seed at Bantry, McHenry County. 
Nebraska. M. K. Swenk (June 20-July 20): The clover seed chalcid was reported 
injurious in York County alfalfa fields during the period here covered. 
,. INSECT CONDITIONS IN' PUERTO RICO DURING JULY, 1932 
G. N. Wolcott 
Insular Experiment Station, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. 
Two outbreaks of the cottony-cushion scale (Icerya ourchas i Mask.), from 6 
to.'.Q months old, have been found recently in Pueblo Vie jo. The heaviest original 
infestation, at Palo Seco, is now practically eliminated, in large part owing to 
spraying and the Australian lady beetle, during dry weather, but the final clean- 
up is almost entirely due to a light gray fungus, as yet -undetermined, which has 
appeared in great abundance during the recent wet weather. This fungus has also 
clea.ned up a heavy infestation in a pocket in the hills west of B^yamon, but in 
an adjoining grove, not protected from the wind, the scale is more abundant than 
a month ago, for conditions have been too dry for the fungus and too wet for the 
beetles, and the latter have entirely disappeared, despite the fact that there is 
an increasing abundance of food for them in this grove. At the present time they 
are known to exist in only one grove, and not in large numbers there. 
The agricultural agent at Arecibo reports the chinch bug ( Blissus l eucop - 
terus Say) as being destructive to young planted sugarcane, about 4 months old, 
at Hatillo. This is the first record of injury to this host in Pvmtto Rico, al- 
though the chinch bug ha.s previously been reported on sugarcane on Vieques Ialrr.d. 
Infestations of lima. be«ns (at Isabcla) continue to be confined to one 
species of pod borer, Etiella zjnckenclla Treit., and have been averaging from 
30 to 40 caterpillars per 100 pods. This is several times as many caterpillars 
as were in the lima beans last year. 
R. Faxon and A. S. Mills (May 3): The new facts, so far as Puerto Rico is 
concerned, were that Fondella c istipenr.is Dyar was usually present in small num- 
bers in lima beans that were shipped to the States. In previous seasons E. 
zinckenella appeared to be more prevalent than Eundella but this season Fundella 
larvae were found more freouently in the pods of lima beans than either Maruca 
testulalis Geyer or Ej, zincke n ella . The infestations of E_t cistipennis were light, 
the heaviest being 3 per cent, found in a hamper from Isnbela. This insect was 
found to be present in shipments from Loiza, Vega Baja, Arecibo, Isabela, and 
Adjuntas. E^ z inckenella was found in only three shipments of lima beans and 
four of gandules. 
