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States excent Mobile and several towns in that vicinity. The fire ant, 
S. xyloni MacCook, has "been active almost the entire winter except for 
a ver -1 * severe., cold snell of about a week's duration when the temperature 
dropped to 10 F. An examinstion of a large number of nests on a 
western slope at State College following this freeze showed that the 
ants suffered a mortality ranging from about 10 to Uo uercent of the 
entire colony. In other locations the colonies showed nractically no 
mortality, A correspondent at Shelby sent to us specimens of Pharaoh's 
ant ( f.onomoriu:. 1 pharaonis L. ) with the remark that the ants had been 
very troublesome in his house for about a year. Specimens were also re- 
ceived fror Tunelo, Waynesboro, and Blue Mountain with complaints that 
they were very annoying. New infestations of the Argentine ant 
(iridomyrmex humilis Mayr) have been recorded from Noxapater and ". . ee. 
Texas. M. R. Smith (February 2?)\ In January ants from George ..'est, in 
Live Oak County > were sent in with the report that they were injuring 
cotton. The ants proved to be Phe idols desert 6 rum var. comanche Whir. 
BOXELDER BUG ( Leotccoris trivittatus Say) 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (February 26): Fewer reuorts of annoyance h=ve been 
received this "ear than fpr many years. 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (February 13): Boxelc'er bugs are causing annoyance 
in homes and school buildings in various parts of northern Utah. 
FIG MOTH ( Ephest'ia figulilella Greg. ) 
California. H. C. Donohoe (February 11): A survey of ptorage plants re- 
ceiving dried fruits from the Sacramento Valley indicates that the in- 
festation in dried fruits from growers last fall was the greatest ever 
experienced in this district. 
CHOCOLATE MOTH (Eyhestia elutella Hbn. ) 
California. H. C. Donohoe (February 11): Small numbers of adults were 
collected in dried fruit storage plants at Oakland, 2\ T apa , and Yuba City 
during the first week in Februar". Tne moth was commonl'' encountered 
in field and dried fruit storages in the San Joaquin Valley. 
DRIED FRUIT MOTH ( Vitu la serratil ineella Rag. ) 
California. H. C. Donohoe (February 11): This insect was found in small 
numbers in dried fruit storages in San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley, and 
Napa the first week in February. 
I MD I AIT-MEAL MOTH ( Plodia intemunctella Hbn. ) 
California. H. C. Donohoe (February 11): Infestation ranged from slight 
to heav^ in stored nrunes in San Jose the first week in Februar-. 
