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eine outbreak in the Laguna District of Mexico is probably of two or three years 
andj ng but the insect has probably only begun extensive spread in this Digtrigs 
a the seed that has been brought into Texas. 
The Occurrence of this insect in Mexico presents one of the gravest dangers 
a has ever confronted the cotton crop of this country and unless the pink boll- 
ore ep be exterminated by cooperative work between the United States and Mexican 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS OF THE BUREAU. 
. DEPARTMENT BULLETINS. 
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Io. 408, Be nen ic during 1915 in the destruction of fly larvae in horse manure, 
ted... Cook & Hutchison, Oct. 28, 1916. 
lo. 419, The grape leaf folder, J. F. Strauss, Nov. 9, 1916. 
421, The sugar-beet thrips, W. H. White, Oct. 26, 1916. 
Q. 420, The eggplant tortoise beetle, T. H. Jones, Oct. 2, 1916. 
0. 424, The cottonwood borer, F. B. Milliken, Nov. 9, 1916. 
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FARMERS’ BULLETINS . | | 
fo. 754, The bedbug, GC. Ll. Marlatt, Oct. 14, 1916. 
0. 759, White ants, T. BE. Snyder, Oct. 9, 1916. 
0. 762, The false chinch bug, F. B. Milliken, Oct. 21, 1916. 
10. 766, The common cabbage worm, F. H. Chittenden, Nov. 21, 1916. 
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH. 
ifect of nicotine as an insecticide, N. BH. McIndoo, Oct. 16, 1916, K-43. 
afe history of Habrocytus medicaginis, T. D. Urbahns, Oct. 23, 1916, K-~44, 
08 - apple aphis, Baker and Turner, Nov. 18, 1916, K-45, 
| important new insect enemy of the peach, A. L. Quaintance & W. B.Wood, Nov. 21, 
1936. K-46, 
MISCRLLANEOUS. 
Bport of the Hutomologist for 1916. L. 0. Howard. November 1916. 
a MORDELLISTENA N.SP. 
The beetles discovered by H. L. Sanford, of the Federal Horticultural Board, in 
hizomes of fern (Nephrolepis) from Guatemala, and reported in the October number 
f the Monthly Letter, as undetermined, have been identified as Mordellistena n, 
p., by Messrs. Schwarz and Barber. 
Yor the benefit of those who file or bind the Weokly News Letter of the Depart- 
ent of Agriculture, it is noted that an error is involved in the issue of November 

