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TUPI-TIPS 
AUSTRALIAN TOl'ATC IZi Til ^l ivtroder es oblicuus Gyll.) 
Mississip] Ri *.7. Earned (March 27): This insect has "been reported by 
correspondents fro.:; the following counties: Jones, L-^.r -, 
Jefferson, Forrest, George, Jj ukson, ar.d Perry. This insect 
is a serious pest to turnips and to a less extent is injurious 
to cabbage, tomatoes, end potatoes. 
SOUTHER'N F I S 1 D -*C BOP INSECTS 
COTTC " [ 
BOLL r SEVIL (.-.rt horiomus grandis Boh.) 
Mississippi .".. '.7. Harnea (-'arch 27): This insect has not "been r | rted 
from any point in Missis sippi so far this year. Hone have 
appeared in our hibernation cages at Poplarville , Raymond, 
Stoneville, Holly Springs, and A, & M. College. All weevils 
rec iv 3 from correspondents have proved to be other species. 
Arizona Arizona Kews Let1 ir Vol. k t No. 1, (January Jil): According 
to the reports from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, boll 
svil hibernation lasl LI was far above the average. A 
statement from the -Dress' service cf the Office of the Secretary 
states that hibernation --as higher tl .: in any of the previous 
its excert one. At Tallulah, La. - , where dgII ■' "11 hiberna- 
tion records have "keen kept for fifteen years the number of 
- vils per ton of Spanish moss this -inter is 2SC. This comuarql 
with 16 per ton for 122+ , 223 in 1323, 137 in 1317, 133 in 1 
and 737 in 1315. Spanish moss is the favoril 3 hiding place for 
the "boll weevil and is therefore used by the department's 
investigators as an index of the.*ate of hibernation. 
TEBTJBSRIA 'T.T""IL ( Anthonbmus grandi_§_ thurheria Pierce) 
Arizona Arizons IV- :... ■ : ir, Vol. v 4, ho. 2 (February 2S): Since the 
first of October, 1923, field scouts of the Federal Horticult 
Board have been actively engaged in a sta e cotter- 
fields cf Arizona to determine the spread of the thurberia boll 
vil. Some of the more reeent findings cf these men indie 
that the situation is bee-, ing ilari) lot serious. 
The thorough scouting shown th t the Santa Cruz Valley 
cotton fields are quite generally i r < . . A ^i^ld of sixteen 
acn 'the Tumacacori *' : s beer to be badly 
lfested throughout the entire field. This s t] first y< ■ 
the field had been planted to cotton. Another field of V 
five acres near Amadc shows an infestation throughout ! 
entir 1 Ld. More weevils have recently been taken 1 
Con ■ il .which is the location where the first -"eevils of 
