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usiially mo^es into peanut fields from infested velvet-bean fields after 
the latter have been harvested, 
SOUTHERN mmiom 
A very heavy outbreak of the southern arrcy^vorin (Prodenia eridan ia 
Craiii.)» covering practical "".y all of the Florida peninsula and the greater 
part of Georgia, North CaDoiina ,and South Carolina, occurred this year. 
In addition to defoliating its native food plants it did much daic^e to 
castor bean, sv/eet potato, okra, tomato, pepper, and ornamental plants. 
This is the heaviest outbreak of this insect that has occurred si^ce 1917, 
SUGARCANE BORER 
"Infestations of the sugarcane borer ( Piatraea saccharalis Fab») 
in Louisiana in 1928 were irregular and in most cases low. The percentage 
of bored stalks in individual- fields exsoiiined varied from 3,5 to 98,; 
with an average infestation of 27,5 per cent. It is necessary to go back 
to 1919 to find a year of similar low infestation. Examinations made in 
Octoter as compared with thosermade in August show that often the damage 
mounted rapidly in the last part of the growing season. This was especially 
marked in sugarcane fields near corn fields, as the borer matures quickly 
and in large numbers in corn stalks, the resulting moths migrating to sugar- 
cane fields when the corn stalks complete their growth and dry out" (»7« E, 
Haley, Bureau of Entomology, U, S« D. A«) 
Early in the spring of this year larvae of Chilo simplex Butl*were 
found infesting rice plants near Honolulu, T» H» , and by the end of May 
between 1,500 and 2,000 acres of rice were known to be infested, all con- 
fined to the Island of Oahu. This insect was first noted by Chinese growers 
in October, 1927. An idea of the severity of the infestation may be had 
from an examination made of two stools of rice collected in a heavily 
infested paddy. From these two stools between 40 and 50 moths emerged, 
PERIODICAL CICADA (Brood II and Brood XXVI I) 
During the year 1928 the large Brood II of this insect ( Tibicina 
SBptendecim L. ) put in its appearance along the A1;lantic Seaboard, This 
brood extends from west-central North Carolina along the Appalachian 
foothills and the piedmont and coastal plains sectionsacross eastern 
Maryland, southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jtersey, southeastern New York, 
and western Connecticut. A few doubtful records of the appearance of this 
brood have been made in the past outside of the territory named, one in 
Posey County, Indiana, one in Kalamazoo County, Mic]&igsn, and three from 
as many localities in Illinois, Not one of these scattered records has 
been verified by appearance in 1928, and it is highly probable that they 
are either the result of misdeterminations or of the appearance of accelerated 
individuals of Brood III, which appears in the Middle v/est the year after 
Brood II appears in the East* 
