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Beet oinee by AN, Caudell, 1.916, 169. Lepidoptera Rhopalocera, 
am, oh cope Suofam, Acraeinae, by K,Jordan and H Eltring- 
hem, 1916. 170, Orthoptera, Acridiidae. Subfam, Pamphoginae, by 
| Ignacie Bolivar, 1916, 171.. (Or thpp beta, Locustidae. Suofam. Meco~ 
4 ost podinae, by A,” N, Candell, 1936, 
; eehed colette lestatatetatetes 
“TRUCK CROP INSHCT INVESTIGATIONS 
Bee checendont nageaeeice in Charge 
Eradication wrrk against the sweet- potato weevil is assuming its 
usual seasonai importance .. About 1,250, 000 ‘sweed-potato draws will be 
grow and distributed in the Mississippi district:or four infested 
4: tounties. over a strip of territory 24 by 78 miles. It is expected that 
in Plorica, in mrathot the reduced infestation apparent in Baker County, 
&@ similar quantity will be pe AirLen) for the: draw delivery there. The 
--new infestation, to which W. H. Carpenter has been assignad, east of the 
., Pascagoula River in Mcetbeteed is smell but difficult to reach and will 
require some effort to handle properly. Practically all of the Missis- 
sippi growers whose proper ty,.is infested have been. signed ‘up, and it is 
believed oer there wilt be little. difficulty in Florida. 
With ase to the el ean-up campai; on, it hastibeen’ necessary’ in some 
_ isolated cases in the Ret: ‘or Charlgton progest to conduct a clean-up by 
hired laborers under the super vision of inspectors as in a number af ca~- 
ses: the erawers themselves have not been ‘sufficiently careful or persis- 
tent and the hogging down has not been thorough. An unusually good op- 
portunity : will “be efforded for eradication by the fact that the acreage 
of infested fields is smaller than it. nas been for many years. Bi L. 
- Boyden reports that the winter reinspeétion is almost completed in Baker 
County and tha’ ail of the fields and most a the. banks will be elean by 
Pebruary Lo, 
Ae L, Johnson has been appointed field assistant ri insect control 
for work on swee t-potato weevil. 4 inspection in ae State of Alabama, 
An B, Jarrell has résigned, effective Jenvary : he to take ‘up per- 
sonal: Supery: s: ion of his Florida farm. 
SOUTEERN FIELD CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
apg L. Webb, Entomological Assistant Acting in Charge 
. [Peo H,. Bradley, of the Mourad; Lave 4 ten: spent several days 
in Washington durir;, the Latter par toor. the month doing some libraby 
work and studying the Musew © lection, 
