libss Point, reported in regard to the pecan chuckuorai as follows: 
"The sruc>vorms are the rjorst .this yecr that I have seen for <luite 
a while. They are causing Quite a bit of' premature opening of the 
shucks and then the pecan itself is discolored. I think the reasor 
for it is that last year after the stcrm so many of the growers did 
not attempt to clean up under ths trees and the shucks with the 
larvae in them -ere not die turned until spring. " another rather 
serious complaint in regard to the pecan 1 shuck^orm rss received on 
October 3 from Ckolona. 
CITHu'S *'$*\ , 
RED SPIDER ( Tetrai rychus telrr ius 1. ) 
Monthly Fejs Letter, Los "agclcs County Hoi ticultural Commission, 
Vol. 9, No. 10 (October 15): Serious "red spider" injury has been 
note.** recently in citrus orchards in eastern Los *mgelcs Qounty 
according to Deputy Horticultural Commissioner, X. 1. T/olff. G-en- 
erally speaking, demnge has been found to be most severe in orchard 
r.hich have not been recently irrigated. vTl.ile the number- of spider 
v;as found to be nearly as great on some of the mor^ recently irri- 
gated properties, the amount of injury from their attacks \-:is no- 
ticeably less. In many orchards -vhere control measures Lave not 
been applied soon enough, the drying and dropping of foliege have 
been severe. 
TRUCK-CHOP ITSSCTS - 
hISCSL L.d ; EQUS PEPPERS 
BLACK CUT77QRK ( .^rotis y^silon Rott. ) 
R. u. Earned (October 27): T\;o rather serious complaints have been 
received recently in regard to the greasy cutworm Specimens of 
this species .identified by S. E. Crumb of the Bureau of Entomology, 
v;ore received from Ocean Springs on October 7. The correspondent 
from Ocean Springs stated that they had apparently destroyed his 
entire uatch of turnips in one night. Specimens t-ntatively iden- 
tified as this species by J. II. Langston -.-/ere received from Grace 
on October 22. The correspondent strted that the v/crms had de- 
stroyed about 2 acres of alfalfa out of a 25-acro field. 
POTATO 
COLORADO POTATO BEETLE ( Lcutinoter sa J ecerrl Ineata Say) 
L. L. Chambers (September l^-^ctober 1): The northern counties 
have been surveyed for the Colorado potato beetle -ith negative 
