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materially heavier during 1S26 in the southern California citrus belt. 
During the fiscal year 3ndS& June 50, 1927, the Los Anglees County In- 
sectary propagated and distributed over the mealybug- infested orchards 
of the county approximately 4-,OCO,0C0 adult Cryptolaemus, an enemy of 
this pest. An area of 7,000 acres was covered, using ten adult beetles 
per tree. Unfortunately, field conditions • ''ere such this season 
that, while they permitted the normal development of the mealybug, the 
prolonged cool, damp weather -materially del .ayed the activity of the lib- 
erated Cryptolaemus. However, they have made up in part for their spring 
delay by a late season oi activity which is resulting in satisfactory 
seasonal control. 
SPOTTED CUCUi'LBE] (j ; 'LB, 
/-bout the middle cf April ve cy serious infestations of Satsuma 
oranges fry the spotted cucumber beetle (Diafrrotica o.uo de c impunc t at a , Fab. ) 
occurred in southern Mississippi. The beetle" did very considerable 
darn r *° doth foliage and blossoms as well as to youin fruit, 
wHITEFI IES . 
Ashm. Morgan 
Whiteflies, Dial eurodes citri / ana D. QJ^t rifoliy , 'ere somewhat 
more abundant in Florida than for several years. This mas due to the com- 
paratively poor development of the sntomogenous fungi, Ae gerita wefrberi 
and Aschersonia ^e^pjleis caused "oy the abnormally dry summer. The 
citrus whitefly was found a-t San Benito anc/is the first record of this 
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insect in this valley of Texas. 
M ANT. 
.-* species of Sol er-Qpsis is recorded for the first time as a serious 
pest of the citrus fruit" in southern California. Phis year it practically 
ruined the entire first crop of tree citrons in the Lahabra Heights sec- 
tion east of V.hittier. 
SEED C03K MAGGOT. 
Coincident with the late spring and continued cool, wet weather, 
outbreaks oi the seed corn maggot (Hylemyia c ilicriara P ond. ) were reported 
early in April from Porta Carolina, Mississippi, and Arizona. In Arizona 
damage was observed during February and march. In ±i^r similar depreda- 
tions were reported from Missouri. During June damage tc seed potatoes 
was reported from Ohio, and melons raid cucumbers were severely damaged in 
Iowa and Michigan. This insect me.de necessary replanting of many acres 
of beans in the Twin Falls District, Idaho, and did considerable damage 
to seed potatoes. During June similar damage was reported from Maryland, 
Indiana, Nebraska, Minnesota,, South Dakota, and Montana. 
C ALB AGE MAGGOT. 
Early in May the flics of the cabbage maggot (: >ieinyia b rassicae 
3oucke) were observed to be very abundnnt in the seed beds on Long Island, 
