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COTTON SQUARE-BORER ( Uranotes melinus Huebn. ) 
Louisiana T, H # Jones (July): Larvae were sent in from PleasSP* Hill 
on July 3 and from Long Bridge on July 6, 
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Porto Geo* N» Wolcott (June 25): For the past two years these "beetles 
Rico have "been reported as injuring cotton at Quebradillas. This 
year large numbers were found in spider nests and curled~up 
leaves of a number of hushes on the beach at Arecibo» An 
extended examination of many cotton fields, both near by and 
throughout the cotton district, near the beach and back in the 
hills, failed to discover any of them on cotton. 
PYRALID (undetermined) 
Louisiana T. H. Jones (July): We received letters on July 2, U, and 
6 from G-loster complaining of injury by a caterpillar lhat 
"seems to stay on the under-side of the leaf of cotton, and 
there is always present a kinfl of web." The correspondents 
reported considerable damage being done in the section and 
it was reported that one farmer was applying calcium arsenate 
for control of the worms. Two larvae were sent in. 
GARDEN '.7E3U0RM ( Loxostege similalis Guen.) 
Arkansas T. E. Holloway and B. R. Coad (July 12): Dwight lealy, 
Associate Entomologist, Arkansas, reports in the press of 
July S the presence of the garden webworm. Reports reaching 
him indicate that the insect is doing considerable damage to 
cotton in the vicinity of Roland. 
CCTTONTTORM (Alabama argillacea Huebn. ) 
Louisiana T, H« Jones (j-uly 6): Tm> larvae, practically full-grown, 
were noted in cotton field at Baton Rouge, 
Texas T* C» Barber (July lU): In regard to the appearance of the 
cottonworm in the Brownsville section, I would state that 
it has been in this section for :?.ore than the past month. The 
first occurrence of which I heard was on last June 8, when it 
was reported to be present in the vicinity of Rio Dcndo. On 
June 10 it was reported from several localities in Hidalgo 
County. The first specimens which I saw personally in 
Brownsville were on the Piper Plantation, 6 miles east, on 
June 1^, but the plantation men told me that they had been 
there for about three days then, and poisoning operations 
were just being cc r m9nced on a large scale. Towards the end 
of JiUiO c :'Oier weather with cloudiness and frequent rains, 
which washed off the greater portion of the poison almost 
