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has shown a very light degree of infestation during the past two months. It 
will "be recalled that no infested fruit was recovered in Octo'cer, that being 
the first month to elapse with no infested imported fruit "being recovered 
since a full-time inspector was assigned to Matamoros in 1929. Only four 
imported oranges were' found infested during November. Sight larvae were 
taken from these oranges, .which originated in Montemorelos, in the State of 
Nueva Leon. Whether the absence of infested fruit in Matamoros is the result 
of climatic conditions at the points of origin, control measures carried out 
by the growers, or closer culling at the time of shipment, is not known, "he 
four infested oranges were contained in shipments of four cars of "bulk oranges 
from Montemorelos. (No. 26 February l) : Four carloads of oranges, in "bulk, 
were received in Matamoros during January from Montemorelos. Some 6.C0C of 
these fruits which had spoiled were taken up from the various stands throughout 
the city. Examination showed 22 of them to be infested with larvae of the 
fruit fly. Sixty-seven larvae were recovered. Oranges were retailir. Ing 
the month at 1 cent (Mexican) each, or about one- third of a cent American 
money. As a result of. the low prices, oranges were scattered all over the 
city with a corresponding danger iof the establishment of a local infestation. 
The second application of nicotine-molasses bait spray to the trees of 
Matamoros was completed on the 24th. While no A. ludens have been taken in 
the traps in Matamoros since the first application of the "bait was completed, 
10 A. pallens. were taken during December. 
USD SCALE ( Chrysomphalus aurantii Mask.' 
California. K. "J. Ryan (February 23): The red scale shows s winter mortality 
of about 50 per cent. This is a more normal condition than was re- 
ported a year ago, when the mortality was unusually high. 
FLORIDA RED SCALE ( Chrysomphalus aonidum L.) 
Florida. J. R. Watson (February 20): The Florida red scale is moderately ant, 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (February 21): C." aonidum on grass and cactus from Hatties- 
burg, January 17. 
CITRUS BLACKFLY { Aleurocanthus worlumi Ashby) 
Canal Zone. James Zetek, Monthly Letter of Bur. of Ent •; , U.S.D.A., No. 22-i 
(December): Adults of Sretmocerus serius Silv. were liberated September last 
year at Fort Amador, at a place near Juan Diaz, and at a place called La 
Sabanilla, near Juan Diaz. *** At Fort Amador .the limes are fairly clean of 
woglumi . The same was true at Ucros place, beyond Juan Diaz, At La Sabanilla, 
where the. citrus trees were in an abandoned state and heavily infested, I was 
almost unable to get any woglumi , and such leaves as I did get had the ex3L1 
holes of the parasite. Live parasites were seen at all three places. 
CITRUS WRTTEFLY ( Dialeurodes citri Riley & How. 
-Florida. J. R. Watson (February 20): The citrus whitefly is moderrtely .ant 
at Gainesville and Lake Alfred. It is not parasitized by entomogenc ogi 
as it was last year at this time, although fungi are in evidence. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (Febraary 21): A rather heavy infestation of D. ^ : ~ ri on 
cape jasmine was reported from McComb on December 2, 1932, and on Camellia 
from Bay St. Louis on January 2, 1933. 
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