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On the whole there has been a decided reduction in the amount of damage done 
by the boll weevil over previous years. However, present indications in the south- 
eastern States point to large numbers going into hioernaticn this fall. 
The lesser corn stalk-borer is reported as having been present in destructiv 
numbers in Porto Rico for the first time in the last fifty years. 
A very successful control campaign against the gipsy roth has been waged in 
New Jersey, the infested territory having been cut nearly in half, by three years' 
work directed toward its extermination in that State. 
During the last weeks in October unusually heavy flights of the lire tree 
looper were reported f ror M assachusetts , Connecticut, and New York. 
The white-marked tussock roth is reported as being on the ascendency in Ohio 
and Nebraska. 
The newly introduced birch leaf-miner, Fenus^ oumila Klug, appears to be 
generally established in the eastern part of New "iork State. 
A moth, Ocnercstora piniari ella Zell., which attacks pine n^ed^ es in parts 
of Europe was caught in considerable numbers at a trap light in Ithaca, Mew York, 
during the last July. As far as we can ascertain there is no recorded note on the 
occurrence of this insect in the United States, but we are informed that Professor 
Corns to ck collected this insect at Ithaca in 1882. 
