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at Carnney in one planting. 
Mr. E. F. Rorke reports that the pink bollvonr ( Pcctinonhora 
gossypiella Saund. ) has become progressively rorse on the South Coast 
during the ironth and estimates that at least 15 per cent reduction of the 
crop on the approximately 10,000 acres of cotton there rill result. from 
its attacks. No cotton '"-ill "be bought from the growers after May 15, . , : 
o~ing to this insect and drought,- whereas otherwise picking could have 
continued until rell into June. During the reek of the 20th ten meet- 
ings r*ere held in as many tOTis in the South Coast to explain control 
measures and the "dead season" for cotton to start May 15 on the 
South Coast (this also includes the Carolina, section on the North Coast). 
On April 3, G.N.W. , M.D.L. and A. S.M. examined rild tree cotton on 
Road 3, between G-uyama, Arroyo, and Patrillas; infested bolls ^ere 
found each time but the ' infestation became more pronounced as T ~c TrT ent 
Eastward from Guyama,. 
On April 20 Dr. Mel T. Cook of the Insular Station found a light 
infestation in one field at Carolina, and. on the 30th several infested 
bolls mere observed out of many on a half dozem large Sea Island plants 
growing on the Station grounds at Rio /Pi ear as.' On" 71 larva and one moth 
of the common scavenger Pyroderccs l-ileyi Wlsm. in cotton bolls ^as 
found at the station. \ 
Only a fev leaves out of a number of plants of <HLld tree cotton at 
several stops made between Guyama and Patillas mere found to contain the 
mines by a cotton leaf miner ( Nop t i cul a, g ossypii Forbes). 
E. P. Rorke reports the cotton stainer ( Dysdercus androac L. )gener- 
ally distributed and doing considerable injury (more than during March) 
throughout the whole south Coast cotton growing section. Dr. Ismael 
Ploros Lugo reports stainers bad on April 1.8 in a 2-acre field in the 
Unidad Rural in the Barrio Carruzo and abundant on Maga trees in Barrio 
Cedro. 
CUBA 
Notes on observations during May, 1931. 
By L. Dean Chris tensori, • 
Recently, in the community gardens at Central Baragua, Provincia 
De Camaguoy, there has been considerable damage to rod peas by Lachnopus 
hisoidus Gyll. The adult of this curculionid feeds on the young plants, 
eating large evenly cut pieces from the edges of the newly formed leaves. 
The beetles averaged about 20 to the hill and many of the single leaved 
shoots had been completely' defoliated. Black-eyed peas were, attacked 
slightly by the same pest. 
