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ANTS. (Formicidae) . 
New York. R. D. Glasgow (April 27): During .the past 6 weeks we have 
identified carpenter ants swarming into houses at Millbrook, Loudonville, 
Schenectady, and Albany., .. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (April .20): Reports of the presence of the "basement 
ant ( Lasius interjectus Mayr) 'around the foundations of houses in 
Douglas County were received during the period March 21 to April 20» 
Oklahoma. F. A. Fenton (April 20) • A number of inquiries have "been received 
on control of household ants. 
Mississippi. C». Lyle (April 2k) : Fire" ants ( Sdlenops is xylon'i McCook) 
have caused trouble in several places during the' month. Inspector J. 
E. Lee reports several complaints of damage to clothe's "by this ant. 
Utah. G, P. Knowlton (April 11): Ants are very troublesome in a home at 
Logan. 
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INDIAN-MEAL MOTH ( P.ledia 'interpunctella Hbn.') 
California. H. C. Donohoe (April 6):. Samples of stored 1935 crop, 
unprocessed seedless raisins from a storage at Kingsburg on February 
2'5 averaged less than 175 larvae per ton. Similar samples in March 
1935 before adult emergence averaged approximately 75^ P er ton * 
DRIED PRUIT MOTH (Vitula serratilineella Rag.) 
California. H. C. Donohoe (April U): Unprocessed 1935 crop seedless 
raisins in storage at Kingsburg, were found slightly infested by larvae 
of 'the dried fruit moth during Pebruary. This is the first record of 
raisin infestation by this species in the San Joaquin Valley within 
the past 5 years. (April 27): Adults of the spring brood we're mere 
abundant than "normally in a packing house in Napa on April l6. They 
were more than 20 times as abundant as those of the raisin moth, which 
Is usually predominant. 
RAISIN MOTH (Ephestia figulilella Greg.) 
Arizona. H. C. Donohoe (April U): Examination of miscellaneous larvae 
found infesting dates in the Experimental Date Garden at Tempe, , 
collected by P. Simmons and D. F. Barnes in November 1935. -yielded 
one raisin moth larva. This is the first record of this insect in 
the field in fruit in any area outside the State of California. 
California. H. C. Donohoe (April U): Studies of winter mortality in soil 
of raisin moth in the vicinity of a raisin storage at Kingsburg indicate 
that, at the start of spring pupation the last of March, mortality in 
continuously wet soil approximated 100 percent; in that only occasionally 
moistened, over 70 percent; and in dry, protected soil, no more than 
30 percent. In the wet soil the increase in mortality was greatest 
during Pebruary, a period of excess rainfall. Over 150 samples of 
