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A very early record for damage "by the Colorado potato "beetle was made 
at Ocean Springs, Miss., on March 2J. Reports of infestation from several 
places over the Gulf region -"'ere received on and after the middle of the 
month. 
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The eggplant leaf miner in/role of a tomato seed-bed pest is reported 
from Sinaloa, Mexico. 
Prom the moss examinations it is evident that the initial "boll weevil 
infestation in Louisiana will be much heavier than last year and much heavier 
in the southern than in the northern part of that State. Mississippi Valley 
territory in general ■ may expect ficsn a medium to heavy infestation decreasing 
to the eastward hut with sufficient weevils nresent to do serious damage 
provided sumrrer weather conditions are favorahle. In Texas the weevil population 
is so reduced in a large portion of the State that very abnormal weather 
conditions ^'ould be required to cause serious damage. It must be borne in 
mind, however, that these records only indicate the initial emergence of weevils 
and the final factor in determining damage will be the summer climatic conditions. 
Weevil emergence generally at the different cooperating stations during the 
first fifteen days of April has been considerably lo^er than was indicated by 
the emergence during March. 
The sugarcane borer is abundant enough in the last year's refuse of the 
cane croo to indicate a serious infestation this year in Louisiana. 
The sand fly ( Culicoid.es punctipennis ) . has been so numerous in Freestone 
County, Texas, as to interfere with land breaking, 
OUTSTANDING- 13SfT0M0L0GlC.iL FEATURES IN CANADA FOR rt PRIL,1926. 
The grasshopper situation in British Columbia, during the unusual lly 
hot and dry summer of 1925, "'-^s the -orst in the history of the province. If 
the summer of 1926 is a dry one, it is feared that there '•'ill be a repetition 
of the outbreaks. 
The lesser migratory grasshopper, has greatly increased in numbers in the 
Nicola Valley, British Columbia, -here it is replacing the roadside grasshopper, 
CamnuLa pellucida Scudder. The former species will be the predominant 'grass- 
hopper to be dealt with in that section, during 1926. 
The European corn borer continued to spread in southern Ontario, during 
1925, twenty-five additional townships being infested. Over the greater part 
of the affected territory there <ras an increase in the percentage of infesta- 
tion, and in some sections the corn crop ^as rendered useless for commercial 
purposes and of little *'alue as a farm crop. Further spread and widespread 
increase in numbers is expected in 192o. 
T-'O million individuals of Habrobracon breviccrnis 77esm. , and fifty 
thousand of Exoristes roborator Fab. , imported European parasites of the European 
corn borer, were liberated in southern Ontario during the period elapsing between 
the spring of 1923 and the autumn of 192?. ■ 
