THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 705 



INSECT NOTES. 



Conducted by the editor. 



Asterolecanium variolosum (Ratz.) has been reported as working upon oak trees at 

 Stockton by Frederick Maskew. 



Tomicus confusus Lee. has been sent in by Mr. J. W. Hough from Claremont Cal 

 who reported it as doing serious damage to young Monterey Pine trees (.Pmus radiata 

 Don.) The species was determined by Mr. Charles Fuchs. 



A new Kermes has been recently collected in Southern California by the editor 

 and by Commissioner S. A. Pease. Mr. George B. King, who is revising the genus has 

 so made the statement. It works upon the Coast live oak {Quercus agrifolia Nee) 

 It was collected by the writer at Santa Paula, Cal., in 1910, and by Mr. Pease at Sari 

 ^ernardino in 1913. In shape it greatly resembles Kermes nigropunctatus Ehr & 

 Ckll., but appears lighter in color. 



Eleodes gigantea var. estriata Casey has recently been collected at Davis Cal bv 

 the writer. Dr. Blaisdell states that it has never before been reported so far north. 



The billbug injurinq small grain, described by Mr. Harry S. Smith in The Monthly 

 Bulletin Vol. II, No. 8, pp. 619-621. Aug., 1913, is composed of two varieties, according 

 to Dr. Edwin C. Van Dyke, as follows: Those with no white vittEe on the dorsum of 

 the elytra kyphenophorus discolor Mann. ; those with white vittse on the dorsum of the 

 elytra. S^phenophorus pictus Lee. According to this classification, the illustrations on 

 page 620 would be 9f S. pictus Lee. or would occupy an intermediate position between 

 the two extremes ot the two varieties of one species. 



_ Mealy bugs are reported by Commissioner F. C. Schell as damaging grape vines 

 m his county. Commissioner R. S. Vaile reports an unusual number of young citrus 

 mealy bugs (Pseudococcus citri Risso.) this fall. — E. J. Vosler. 



The alfalfa caterpillar, Eurymus eurytheme (Boisd.), has been greatly reduced bv a 

 wilt disease, according to reports received from Commissioner Carl J. Ley. — E. J. 



V OSLER, 



. The Western twelve-spotted cucumber beetle, DJa&ro«ica soror Lee. is still damag- 

 ing squash blossoms in the gardens in and around Sacramento. — E. J. Vosler. 



Crickets are reported eating holes in garments by several parties in Sacramento.— 

 E. J. Vosler. 



The pear-leaf blister-mite, Eriophyes pyri Pgst, is reported as now going into 

 hibernating quarters (September 26, 1913) by Mr. Geo. P. Weldon, who observed the 

 young moving from the leaves to the buds and into places of protection. His observa- 

 tions were made in El Dorad'o County. 



