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Coleophora limosipennella Dup. 

 This elm pest which is also recorded in Smith's 1909 list as being 

 sure to occur in New Jersey was found definitely at Hackensack 

 during the summer of 1914 feeding on elms. It is also known as the 

 European elm case bearer, the larva living in a flattened case with 

 serrated upper edge. The damage deing done, however, was not 

 serious. 



Monarthropalpus buxi Lab. 



This leaf miner was reported during the summer of 1914 from 

 a private estate in Peapack, N. J., where it was injuring a box 

 hedge. The maggots mine the leaves and in bad infestations much 

 of the foliage is lost. This pest is known to occur in Maryland and 

 New York but has not heretofore been recorded from New Jersey. 



Leucaspis bambusae Kuwana. 

 During the summer of 1911, bamboo growing around the edges 

 of a pond in a nursery at Riverton, N. J., w^as found to be badly in- 

 fested by what was undoubtedly the above scale insect. The in- 

 sects were so thick around the joints of the plants that they re- 

 sembled patches of snow. In spite of their numbers, however, 

 they did no appreciable damage. Mrs. Fernald, in her catalog of 

 the Coccidse of the World, gives the habitat of this scale as Japan 

 and the infested plants in this case were originally imported from 

 that country. Mr. E. R. Sasscer, to whom some of the insects 

 were only recently sent, replied that while the lobes were somewhat 

 worn he was of the opinion that it was L. hamhusoe. Unfortunately 

 this splendid infestation was practically wiped out by the bamboo 

 being cut back on account of its ungainly size. 



Merodon equestris L. 

 This species known as the Narcissus fly was found in the larval 

 stage only, at Orange, N. J., during October, 1913. The party on 

 whose place it was found destroyed all suspicious bulbs and the 

 following spring, nothing could be found, Since that time, however, 

 reports have been made from that vicinity mentioning a maggot 

 found in iris roots w^hich had been injured by Macronoctua omista 

 Grote and I am of the opinion that these may be larvae of the 

 Lunate onion fly, Eumerus strigatns Fallen, inasmuch as Dr. E. P. 

 Felt has recorded this species as occurring under such conditions. 



