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Arkansas. M. R. Smith (March 21): A correspondent in Blytheville sent 
specimens of the odorous house ant ( Tauinoma sessile Say), which were 
infesting her house. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (March 20): A house-infesting ant new to our records 
was added when an abundance of Prenolenis uarvula Mayr was found infest- 
ing the basement and first floor of a studio in Lancaster Count v on 
March 5. The basement ant L, inter.jectus was reported infesting the 
basement of a house in Douglas County on March 11. 
Texas. M. R. Smith (March 21): Suecimens of the Texas leaf cutting ant 
( Atta texana Buckley) were collected in the Brazos River bottoms near 
College Station. The ants were reported as carrying berries and leaves 
of yauoon ( Ilex su. ) in their mandibles. Specimens of ants reported 
attacking trees at Seabrook proved to "be Camuonotus herculeanus Pennsyl - 
vania, s ^eG. and C. car^ae rasilis "whir. Specimens of Pharaoh's ant 
( Monomorium pharao nis L. ) , found feeding on sweets in a house at Dallas, 
were sent me for determination. 
PEA WEEVIL ( B melius pisorum L. ) 
Oregon. A. C. Larson (February): During the month we have made mortality 
examinations of weevils found in fence rsost? and trees near last year's 
uea fields in different parts of the Willamette Valley. The mortality 
ran from lo.o uercent in oak uosts at Halsey to 100 percent in similar 
posts at Barlow, where only two weevils, both dead, were found. The 
average mortality of the weevils in the 9 fields was 3^*7 percent, 
about the same as last year, when the average mortality of weevils col- 
lected from nosts during February was 35 percent. We found more weevils 
in armle trees at Dever than in uosts at any other ulace. 
BEAN WEEVIL ( Acanthoscelides obtectus Say) 
Wisconsin. E. L. Chambers (March 20): Reports of bean weevils are more 
numerous this spring than usual. 
SPECIAL NOTE 
BOLL WEEVIL ( Anthonomus grand is Boh. ) 
Haiti. Andre Audant (January 15): The boll weevil has been discovered on 
the island. Within a 5-^ile radius of Jacmel, =bout 90 uercent of the 
bolls have been attacked. The infestation decreases from Jacmel to 
Port au Prince, the average los^ being from 30 to Uo uercent in the more 
heavily infested fields and from 20 to 30 uercent on an average. It seems 
that the insect has been uresent at Jacmel since 1°^2 or 1933 > 1out Was 
not noticed by the feasants, who thought the heavy rains caused the fall- 
ing of the bolls. 
