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HICKORY SHOOT CURCULIO ( Conotrachelus aratus Germ.) 
Mississippi R. 17. Earned (May 17): ITearly grown larvae of the hickory 
shoot curculio were collected on pecan trees near Tyler town 
April 27. Inspector N. D. Peets reports as follows: "I "be- 
lieve that I am safe in saying that this insect is damaging 
this pecan orchard fully 50 per cent." 
PHYLLOXERA ( Phylloxera spp.) 
Mississippi R. ;», Earned (May 23): A large number of complaints in re- 
gard to phylloxera galls on pecan trees have been received dur- 
ing the past few weeks. These complaints have come from Yazoo, 
Washington, Adams, Holmes, Sharkey, 3olivar, Franklin, Stone, 
Lincoln, and George Counties. Eleven lots of P. devastatrix 
Perg. have been received and two each of ?. no tab il is Perg. 
and p. caryaeavellana Riley. 
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AN APHID ( Mwzocallis fumroenneilus Pitch) 
Georgia T. L.Bissell (May): The first injury of the year was found 
on Kicoria glabra at Experiment April 30. Aphids and injury 
were common on the lower branches of Schley pecan at Barnes- 
ville on May 24. 
CITRUS 
MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY ( Ceratitis caoit-t-. 7ied.) 
General Plant Quarantine and Control Administration (May 31): Med- 
iterranean fruit fly surveys dTasring the month of May showed 
only a limited increase in the territory known to be involved 
in infestation outside the areas reported in the last number 
of the Survey Bulletin. The general infestation may now be 
said to extend from San Mateo (near Palatka), Ormond, Summit, 
and Oxford on the north to Auburndalc, Haines City, and Cocoa 
on the south. Throughout the outer third of this entire ar 
the infestation is extremely sparge and represented only by 
occasional groves at considerable distances from one another. 
^nfested Florida fruit has been intercepted during May in N 
York City; Little Rock, Arkansas; Columbus, Ohio; Ashburn, 
Savannah, and Valdosta, Georgia; "est Monroe and Shrevepoit, 
La.; Greensboro, N. C; and Dallas, Texas. Two adult flics 
have been captured at Jacksonville, Fir., in a private re 
dence where a box of oranges from Orlando had been stored 
■^nd consvimed. 
Haiti £;. c. Smith (May 6): A special effort is "being made to 
