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the fruit "belt of western "-New York the insect was still in the larval stage. 
Early in April adults commenced to emerge as far north as Delaware. These 
emergence records are more or less in accord with those of previous years 
except that in Georgia the appearance was later than it had "been any previous 
year since the establishment of the insect in that State. The insect seems to 
"be gradually spreading into new territory. In many sections the damage to 
fruit was rather severe owing to the extremely short crop of fruit. 
PEACH BORES \ 
The suggested possibility of the association Of the peach borer with the 
disease known as phoney peach has stimulated an interest in the distribution 
of this insect. We are therefore publishing in this number of the Survey 
Bulletin a map showing all of the records that we have on the distribution of 
this pest and the relative intensity of its infestation in the various regions. 
In general the insect is distributed -over the United States east of the 100th 
meridian and south of southern Wisconsin, central Michigan, Lake Ontario, end 
the northern border of Massachusetts; scattering reports have been received 
west of the 100th meridian, and the insect seems to be well established in the 
Great Basin in Utah and in southwestern Idaho. On the West coast another 
species supplants the peach borer. What appear to be sparsely infested areas 
east of the Mississippi River are in all probability due to lack of observa- 
tions of of the permanent recording of such as were made. 
MEXICAN FRUIT WORM 
On the morning of January 29 an adult ( Anastrepha In dens Loew) was 
caught in a grove about 2g miles northwest of Wesla.co, Tex. This is 
apparently the first adult that has been collected on the American side of the 
river. Up to the end of March infestations were found in 40 groves extending 
from San Benito to Mission. The infestations were more general in Hidalgo 
County than in Cameron County. More groves were found infested in the Weslaco, 
Pharr-San Juan-Alamo , and Mission districts than in other parts of the county. 
PIG MOTH 
If one assumes a 1932 crop of about 13, COO tons of dried figs in 
California and ba.ses computations on averages secured by the Pood and Drug 
Administration, covering detected infestations, and consequent loss in sales 
value, of deliveries ma.de at pocking houses, the estimated loss tc fig growers 
this year on account of infestation by insects will total about $216, OCC, not 
including fruit culled out on ranches. The greatest part of this loss was 
caused by moth larvae, chiefly Zphestia figulilella Greg. (l) 
PLUM CURCULIO 
The plum curculio ( Oono t r acheitis " nenuphar Host. ) appeared late over the 
eastern part of its range. It was first collected in the field in Tennessee 
on April 4; in Geoigia April 5; in Virginia April 6; and in Delaware April 20. 
This is the latest apr->eai - ance of adults in the past 12 years in Georgia. As 
(l) Perez Simmons, Bureau of Entomology, U.S.D.A. 
