shin i ae 
"The distribution of the overwintered beetles" of the Mexican bean 
beetle (Epilachna corrupta Muls.) "in the Estancia (N. Mex.) Valley," 
a according to J. R. Douglass, "was fairly general over the bean beetle 
_ area of the valley that comprises an area of about 300 square miles. * * * 
Very few beetles occur on the mesa south of Mountainair, or in the north- 
ern part of the valley. These two bean areas are practically free of the 
beetles and are of no economic importance." As to damage, Mr. Douglass 
reports: "The hot dry weather checked the infestation in the valley so 
the injury to commercial plantings is confined to the western foothills. 
This insect has practically defoliated all the bean plantings west of the 
Punta, Manzano, Torreon, Tajique, and Chilili Highway. In addition, the 
insect followed the canyons down below the highway and defoliated plant- 
ings along the western edge of the valley. The above area covers about 
five thousand acres and the reduction in yield is conservatively placed 
at 50 per cent of the crop." 
FOREST INSECTS 
S. F. Potts, Melrose Highlands, Mass., reports as follows on re- 
sults obtained with gipsy moth traps in which are placed substances con-— 
taining those organs of the female gipsy moth which attract the males: 
"About 50 traps were put out in Saugus, Mass., making a total of about 
150 for the season. These traps were spaced 100 to 200 feet apart along © 
trails in an area of approximately 600 acres. A little over 6,655 male 
gipsy moths were caught in this area during the season, or about 10 miles 
peracre. * * * Tips from large females caught more males than tips from 
small females. Extract from freshly issued females caught a very small 
number of males as compared to extract from females one to four days old. 
Traps put out one month before the first males issued caught moths through- 
out the entire season. A double funnel or cone-shaped trap was devised 
with the idea of better trapping the males. + turns on an axis in such 
a way as to point the trap into the wind. About 90 per cent of the males 
caught came against the wind." 
R. T. Webber, who is engaged in studies of parasites of the gipsy 
moth (Porthetria dispar L.) at Melrose Highlands, Mass., states that 
"males (of Tachina larvarum L.) issuing from puparia received from Europe 
have mated readily with T. mella (W1lk.) females issuing from puparia se- 
cured from native American hosts collected in the field, and puparia® 
have been obtained from such mating. On the other hand no mating of male 
mella and female larvarum from the same sources has been obtained. From 
one to five puparia of larvarum were obtained from individual silkworms 
On which eggs had been placed by the female flies." 
A. B. Proper, Melrose Highlands, Mass., reports that a second 
shipment of about 1,300 adults of Eupteromalus nidulans Thom. has been sent 
to the State of Washington for liberation in a satin moth infestation. As 
in the July shipment, "two lots were similarly prepared ; one being sent 
by ordinary mail, and the other by air mail. Those sent by ordinary 
mail were about a day longer in transit than those sent by air mail and a 
larger percentage of mortality resulted." 

