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Throughout the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley areas all dried 
fruit storage plants visited were infested. 
A PYRALID ( A^homia gularis Zell. ) 
California. H. C. Donohoe (February 11): Damage to stored prunes from 
Santa Clara Valley, stored in Oakland and San Jose, ranged in late 
fall from slight to severe. The moth was found in small numbers in 
the storage houses the first week in February. 
RICE WEEVIL (Sitophilus oryza e L.) 
Louisiana. W. E. Hinds (February 25): Black weevils are less common than 
usual in old cornstalks in the fields. However, the cold was not 
sufficiently severe to check their breeding and survival in corncribs 
and rice warehouses where they are normally abundant. 
CIGARETTE BEETLE ( Lasioderma serricor ne Fab. ) 
Nebraska.. M. H. Swenk (January 2): Specimens of the cigarette beetle 
were sent in from Merrick County, where they had been taken from the 
upholstering of a parlor suite. 
PEA WEEVIL ( Bruchus pisorum L. ) 
Idaho. C. lakeland (February 20): T. A. Brindley, who is stationed at 
Moscow working or. the pea weevil , had many cages containing living 
weevils exposed in various situations. He finds that mortality of 
weevils was almost complete in cages, but that there is a heavy per- 
centage of survival beneath the bark of ponderosa pine trees. 
