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on the outside of these green bolls. This indicated that our lowest 
temperature of 28° F. to that time was not low enough to kill the adult 
weevil in the field or stages in the bolls. The adult weevils found 
were very active." x 
K. P. Ewing, W. S. Cook, and R. L. McGarr, Tallulah, continuing 
population counts of the tarnished plant bug, report that "sweepings 
during January revealed that the adults of Lygus pratensis L. were still 
very active * * * No specimens of Adelphocoris rapidus Say or Psallus 
seriatus Reut. were collected. 
Average per 100 sweeps of Lygus pratensis collected during January. 
(Approximately 300 sweeps per host were made each week. ) 
lst week end week 3rd week 4th week 
Host plant Jan. 4-9 Jan. 11-16 Jan. 18-23 Jan. 25-30 
TEE Wa as eee i Ae 56.0 85.4 152.4 138.5 
Aster ericoides........... PAE Wa 30.3 oUnt 15.0 a 
Dees YaRe-OCL ec ene oe Ono 73.0 Fas) os 29.0 
T. C. Barber, who has been making observations on the cotton leaf 
perforator (Bucculatrix thurberiella Busck) at Brownsville, Tex., says: 
"Breeding was continuous in the fields during January although very 
slow, and the specimens were very hard to find on account of their scar-— 
city. During January we collected 5 living miners, 4 larvae in the web- 
molt stage, and 17 free larvae from the cotton plants, making a total 
of 26 specimens in the various larval stages. This proves that field 
development was in progress during the entire period." He states also: 
"From matings of reared moths made during November, 1931, we reared 3 
moths which emerged during January, 1932. These moths had respective 
complete life-history periods, from date of mating of the parent moths 
to the date of emergence of the next-generation moths, of 43, 41, and 
36 days--unexpectedly short life histories for the midwinter period... 
From a mating of reared moths made on December 24, 1931, two more moths 
were reared during January, 1932, with complete life-history periods of 
34 days each." | 
