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spruce at Newport, Oreg., and from the Engelmann spruce at Sand 
Point, Idaho. : 
President Gillette then announced that the proposal of new mem- 
bers was again in order, whereupon the following names were offered 
and received: 
W. D. Hunter, Washington, D. C., proposed by Mr. Bruner; Ver- 
non L. Kellogg, Stanford University, Cal., proposed by Mr. Bruner; 
Dr. W. J. Holland, Pittsburg, Pa., proposed by Mr. Hopkins. 
The meeting then adjourned for lunch, to reassemble at 2.30 p. m. 
AFTERNOON SESSION, AUGUST 24, 1901. 
Mr. Seott presented the first paper of the afternoon programme, Viz: 
A PRELIMINARY NOTE ON A NEW SPECIES OF APHIS INJURIOUS 
TO PLUMS AND PEACHES IN GEORGIA. 
By W. M. Scort, Atlanta, Ga. 
Early in April, 1898, I observed a chestnut-brown Aphid in great 
numbers attacking plum trees in an orchard at Fort Valley, Ga. The 
insects were crowded thick on the growing tips and leaves of several 
thousand plum trees, and their injurious effects were then evidenced 
by the curled and twisted condition of 
the leaves and stunted appearance of 
the young shoots. 
Thinking it was probably only one 
of the well-known species of plant-lice 
common to the plum, I took no special 
notice of it more than to have the in- 
fested trees treated with 10 per cent 
kerosene in mechanical mixture with 
water, which proved to be an efficient 
remedy. 
Several days later the same conditions 
were found in plum orchards at Mar- 
shallville, and during the course of the 
Mittal dona soc aeeiwioktarones So the insect was located at a num- 
peach and plum in Georgia, much en- ber of places in middle and south 
a. (from drawing furnished by Georgia. The following year, 1899, this 
insect again showed upin numbers even 
more injurious than when first observed. Investigations during that 
year showed it to be generally distributed over the State, equally preva- 
lent inthe northern, middle, and southern portions. It wasthen found 
to infest the peach as wellas the plum. Its natural food plant would 
appear to be the wild plums, as these were found badly infested in 
every section of the State. Among the cultivated plums the Wild 
Goose, Robinson, and Mariana appear to be favorites of this insect, 
but the Japanese varieties also suffer serious damage from its attacks. 
