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NEWS ITEMS FROM WEST SPRINGFIELD, (MASS.) FIELD STATION. 























July 24, I9%6. 
9 clover leaf weevil, Phytonomus punctatus, hes been more abundant in 
"fields tata Se the nrseen? season, than at any time (aes the establishment 
chius picirostris, one a the imported clover weevils, has been found 
eS in New Hampshire and Vermont. 
reworms of the genus Limonius have been very destructive in cornfields at 
» Vermont. 
3 injury tO young corn in the fields at Brattleboro, Vt., by an undetermined 
iped, have made it necessary to replant some plots two and three times. 
dults of Macrobasis unicolor are defoliating potatoes and some clover 
2S in Vermont. . 
Macrodactylus subspinosus has been abnormally abundant and destructive in 
England this spring. Aside from the usual cereal and forage crops which this 
= Sadie in this section, they have been noted of stripping small elms and 
emeshopper areas in the Merrimac and Connecticut River Valleys which were not 
ed during the summer of 1915 are being severly damaged at this time. Areas in 
the hoppers were eliminated last season, are virtually free of any infestation 
§ summer. 
ay thousand puparia of Compsilura concinnata are being assembled and 
1 a to R. N. Wilson at Gainesville, Fla., in an attempt to introduce this species 
, the grass worm, Laphygma frugiperda. 
_ During the month D. A. Ricker has taken a wale of Polyphylla variolosa. 
i: of the foremost Coleopterists in this section, have informed us that this is 
e first male that they have ever seen from the New England States. 
: H. EB. Smith. 
DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
* ; | A. L. Quaintance, In Charge. 
y. G. Stevens, of Leland Stanford University, has been temporarily appointed 
a os W. M. Davidson at Walnut Creek, Calif., in investigations of predatory 
Speare spent the week of July 2 in eastern Massachusetts, southern Mein 
Ni 
- Meahshire in pa dahauds of his investigations on the fungus disease of Leca es um 
FEDERAL HORTICULTURE BOARD. 
C. L. Marlatt, Chairman. 
(In Cooperation with the Bureau of Entomology.) 
ne? the véesult of an informal conference on Amendment No. 5, to the cotton regul- 
Sons held on June 29th, the effective date of said amendment was postponed +0 
quarry 1, 1917. Amendtient No. 5 covers the disfinsection of burlap or other fab- 
38 Which have been used for cotton wrappings It was brought out in this confer- 
that wrappings of this et te may be ‘divided into three classes; (1) Gunny 
American-grown cotton, comprising about 50 per cent of the total importation; 
aterial wh ich has never been used to cover peurem pha: 35 per cent; and Se 

