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recalled to the chair of entomology at Iowa. 
The Department through the Federal Horticultural Board announces the 
release of Alabama from the quarantine against the Mexican bean beetle, 
effective July 23, 1921. This action has been decided upon on account 
of recent developments in the Scouting campaign conducted against the 
pest which has shown a much greater distribution that was estimated at 
the end of last season. At the time the quarantine was promulgated the 
infested territory was believed to be confined to 13 counties in Alabama, 
Covering an area of about 34500 gquare miles, lying in the mineral district 
in. north-central Alabamae Scouting during the present summer shows that 
the beetle is present in injurious numbers over about 10,000 square miles 
in the States of Alabama, Georgia, and Tennesseey and is distributed, 
though as yet thinly, over an additional 20,000 square miles in these 
States and in Kentucky and South Carolina. At the present time, the in= 
festation covers 30 counties in Alabama, 26 in Georgia, 1 county in 
Kentucky, 1 in South Carolina, and 27 counties in Tennessee, Scout ingr 
is being carried on at the present time to determine whether the infesta= 
tion reported from Thomasville; Gae, is an isolated one or part of a large 
general infestation adjoining the southern boundary of the present known 
infested areas At present, the insect is known to be within 16 miles of 
Mississippi, 10 miles of Florida, 3 miles of North Carolina, and 23 miles 
of Virginiae It is evident from the present distribution of the insect 
east of the Mississippi River either that the original spread is much 
greater than was originally believed possible or that the original in- 
troduction took place at a date several years earlier than the reports 
would indicatee In either casey the continuation of the quarantine seems 
unjustifieble in the light of present information, as an economic loss 
through its enforcement would more than counterbalance the gaine 
FARRER RHE 
FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
Ae Le Quaintance, Entomologist in Charge 
H. F. Willard, in charge of the Bureau's laboratory at Honolulu, 
Hawaii, who has been spending some time in the States, has now re= 
turned to Honolulu to resume his studies of the Mediterranean and other 
fruit flies. 
John Be Gill, who has been assisting in connection with peach investi- 
gations at Fort Valley, Gae,. has now returned to his permanent head-= 
quarters at Brownwood, Texe, where he will resume his pecan insect ins 
vestigations. . 
A. Te Speare is now at Orlando, Flas, to continue his investigations 
of fungous parasites of citrus fruit insectse 
Profe Je G. Sanders, Dre T. J. Headlee, and Drs A. Le Quaintance 
visited the Japanese beetle lahoratory at Riverton, Ne Je, on July 19, 
and in company with C. H. Hadley and other members of the scientific 
force went over in some detail the status of the control and other 
operations under way. The Japanese beetle was found to be more 
abundant than usual, and a correspondingly larger amount of injury 
to foliage of various kinds was in evidenceée 
