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The leaf-footed plant-bug (Leptoglossus phyllopus Linn.).—This insect, 
which breeds normally upon the thistle and sucks the juices of that 
plant, was received from Nix Bros., Mount Pleasant, 8. C., with the 
statement, made under date of August 28, that it was injurious to aspar- 
agus, and a single specimen was found op asparagus in the neighbor- 
hood of the District of Columbia. It is quite a general feeder, and has 
been recorded by Mr. H. G. Hubbard as injurious to the orange. 
The thick-thighed Metapodius (Metapodius femoratus Fab.).—With 
the above from Nix Bros., Mount Pleasant, S. C., August 28. This 
species also affects the orange by sucking the juices from the succulent 
shoots, flowers, or fruit. (See Hubbard’s ‘Insects Affecting the 
Orange,” p. 162.) 
Thyanta custator Fab.—Received with the preceding from Nix Bros., 
Mount Pleasant, 8. C., and Huschistus servus Say and H. crassus Dall. 
from the same source, with the statement that they were injurious to 
asparagus. 
The harlequin cabbage-bug (urgantia histrionica Hahn.) has pre- 
viously been mentioned as attacking asparagus (Bull. No. 7, n. s. Div. 
Ent., p. 80). 
Glassy-winged sharp-shooter (Homalodisca coagulata Say).—Received 
in 1892 from Beaufort, S. C., from a correspondent who had ‘found 
them upon his asparagus plants.” (Insect Life, Vol. V, p. 152.) 
Plum plant-louse (Jlyzus mahaleb Fouse.).—Observed in its different 
stages in June at Washington, D. ©., and in such numbers as to show 
conclusively that it feeds upon asparagus. 
Melon plant-louse (Aphis gossypii Gloy.).—A\|so in its different stages, 
Washington, D.C. 
OTHER INSECTS. 
Outside of the orders Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, and Hemiptera aspar- 
agus has few foes. In Europea small two-winged fly, Platyparwa peci- 
loptera Schrank, called the asparagus fly, is of considerable economic 
importance, and the larva of Bibio hortulans L. is said to injure the 
roots. In this country only a single species of Diptera appears to 
have been associated with asparagus. This is Bibio albipennis Say, but 
it is probably not injurious to this plant (Pract. Ent., Vol. II, p. 83). 
Agromyza simplex Loew.—May 10, 1897, and afterwards this minute 
black fly was observed in abundance on terminal shoots of asparagus, 
particularly at Cabin John, Md. In two weeks or so no more were to 
be seen, but June 26 these flies appeared again, usually being found in 
copula. It would appear that this is the first new brood of the year. 
The abundance of this dipteron on asparagus would seem to indicate 
that it lives in some manner at the expense of this plant. 
Grasshoppers or locusts.—Grasshoppers of several species, particu- 
larly of the genus Melanoplus, are often numerous in beds of asparagus, 
but the only species observed eating this plant was Melanoplus propin- 
quus Seudd. 
