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DE73ERRY 
STRAWBERRY TTEEViL ( Anthonomus signatus Say) 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (April 21): The strawberry weevil is moderately at ..iant 
on dewberries in Prattville. 
PECAN 
PECAN LEAP' CASE BEARER ( Acrobasis palliolella Rag.) 
North Carolina. R. \V. Leiby (April 21): The pecan leaf case "bearer seems to be 
less abundant than usual according to examinations made of buds on pecan 
twigs for the number of hibernacula present. 
Georgia. J. B. Gill (April 25): The pecan leaf case bearer larvae are doing 
serious damage to the buds and foliage in pecan orchards of southern Georgia. 
In unsprayed pecan orchards the damage will be quite extensive. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle and assistants (April): The pecan leaf case bearer is very 
abundant at Ocean Springs. (Abstract, J.A.H.) 
HICKORY SHUCK WORM ( Laspeyresia caryana Fitch) 
Georgia. J. E. Gill (April 25): The adults of the pecan shuckworm have been 
emerging in large numbers at Albany this spring. 
A SAWFLY ( Megaxyela ma.jor Cress.) 
•Mississippi. C. Lyle (April 22): A rather heavy infestation of sawflies, de- 
termined by J. M. Langston as H. major , on pecan trees was reported from Luce- 
dale,. George County, on April 21. 
OBSCURE SCALE ( Chrysomphalus obscurus Comst.) 
California. H. J. Ryan (April 27): Earlier in the month, infestation of • 
this scale was found on a small planting of pecans and English walnuts in 
the San Fernando Valley. This is the first infestation I can find any record 
of in California and so far as I know, the first record of its being taken 
on English walnut trees. 
CITRUS 
FRUIT FLIES (Anastrepha spp.) 
Texas. Bureau of Plant Quarantine News Letter No. 27, U. S. T. A. (March 1 : 
Three adult male A. ludens Loew and one adult female A. f ratcrculus 
were taken in traps operated in proves on the American side of the river 
during January. These were the first adults to be taken in the Valley 
