are 
a Research, United States Department of Agriculture, for 
it is interesting to note that adults of ate ranquebarica were collected 
at. Paradise Key, Fla., in. the Lower Everglades by CG. A. Mosier during the’ season 
a 1918, Bes iatonat scattering. low red mangrove trees occur at and edt Parad ise 
ey. 
On February <p oR: Boy We} Ai: through the Lower Everglades, south of 
Paradise Key, north of West Lake, a dead adult of GO. tranquebarica was found 
between the leaves of an’ epiphyte (Tillandsia sp.) on a low red mangrove ‘tYee, 
In this vicinity the red mangrove, normally a salt water tree, occasionally oc- 
curs in low thickets, although the water is fresh or slig shtly brackish, es 
the soil or water at the roots of these trees may be brackish, 
These facts indicate that this borer may become a serious pest ‘anywhere 
that the red Boney? tree occurs, 
' TROPICAL AND sek et FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS © 
Ge lis Marlatt, Ent omologist in Charge 
H. F, Dietz sailed for Panama i hancans middle of the month, hav ing com= 
pleted his two weeks of pepe tan work at the port of New ‘Orleans with George 
Compere. 
meeTnis is ‘a big year for the periodical cicada, A circular on Brood X, 
the. brood of the year, has recently been issued by the Department, On account of 
the extremely mild winter throughout the country, it is quite possible that the 
cicada may emerge much earlier than it does normally, and it is desirable thet 
all the field agents of the Bureau within the.terrnitory covered by the Board 
should be on the lookout for carly emérgences and. report them, The records of 
this year should give valuable data on the influence of temperature’ conditions 
on emergence, If such early emergences occur in some districts, late frosts 
_ may destroy many of the insects, Instances of this kind are known and should 
be recorded this Paes if they occur, : 


FEDERAL HORTIOULTURAL BOARD 
C. ae ‘arlatt, Cheer aar 
The sail inspection at New erioene has been taken over by 0, K, Court- 
ney, formerly connected with the Texas-Mexicce border inspection service, E. K. 
Sasscer spent a week with George Compere and Mr. Courtney at New Orleans in 
starting this permanent phase of the inspection service, It is planned that the 
general control of inspection at. ports like New Orleans will be under the im- 
} mediate direction of Mr, Sasscer, representing the Board, and that ultimately 
this service may be extended to: oan of .the other Gulf ports and perhaps to some 
of the Southern Atlantic ports. Edgar L. St. Ceran, Chief Boarding Officer of 
the United States Customs Service, at New Orleans, has been appointed a collab- 
orator of the Board to assist Mr. Courtney in the. work of ship inspection, Mr, 
Compere, on the completion of his work at New Orleans, spent 10 days making an 
investigation of the conditions at Florida ports for tue information of he 
Board and particularly for the benefit of the State inspection service at Floric: 
and returns at the end of the month to San Francisco to resume his a nat wor 
