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I F S E C T S A 5' E E C T I N G GREENHOUSE 
AMD 0 R N A H E N "T A' L PLANTS 
SPOTTED CUCLR.UJT-R BEETLE ( Piabrotien d.uodec inrpnr.ctata ?») 
North Carolina. D, L, Wr.vy (October l): Severe noticed ’'/herever 
candytuft v/as gro’.Tn in western North- Carolina* Plants cowoletely 
defoliated. 
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Eanrss, H, R, Bryson (October ?3); Conr-reg-ated in flower jy'urdens tind 
causing Bone injury to blooming chrysanthemums. Late beans that 
were not frozren showed considerable injury to the leaves. They are 
more abundant in Kansas t'-ian for several years. 
A SCAR.\BAEID BEETLE ( Ochrosid i^. borealis Arrow)* 
West Virginia. C. TT. Hadley (October): Extensive ‘ turf injury . reported 
on grounds of a country club a.t Wierton, Hancock County. Examination 
of specimens In October showed th.at the suecibs ca.TSing the d<-'.ma,ge 
wa.3 0, borealis . Infecta.tion is general over the entirb 15O acres 
of the’ covirse , hhere lanv?! counts run from 10 to about I'-'O per 
square foot. Turf on two adjoining estates also heavily infested. 
Control measures being used over t'le eotire course, 
Ohio. J. S. Houser (October 26): This insect has been very abundant 
, this ye: r, •p-jrticularly in the ncrth.ern u©,rt of the State. Some 
of the insects arc still feedin.:, although others have started to 
buri' 0 '.v ceeoer into the soil. It is no uncommon exnerience to find 
^ large; areas of turf coiiroletely destroyed, 
- A TREEHOPPER ( Enchdnopa binotata Say) 
New York, .R;\,F, .Horeoy/ ^October) : Ir'ony egg masses on viburnum, also one 
ad\ 3 . 1 t was found on October 20 ot Roche stor, 
HAIRY CHINCH BUG ( Blissus hirtus Montd, ) 
Rhode Island, A. E, Stene (October h 6 ): Reported in two or three 
places bu:, damage done was not so great as tlim-t of last yenr, 
ISALYBUGS ( Pseudococcus sup.) 
New Jersey, M. D, Leonard (October 25 ): Several large out-of-door 
window boxes of coleus observed at Ridgewood in 3e'.)te'''.ber, with the 
plants moderately to severely infested by P. cltri Risso, Early 
in October all of the nlants in a couule of boxes had beer- killed 
* Note : Blanchard described a species from Bolivia as villosa 
in the genus Gyclocephala in 18U6.‘ Burmeister described. villosa in 
the same genus in 1847. G, J, Arrow in Ann. Mag. Nat, Hist. ( vol. 
8, p. 172 , 1911 ) .substituted borealis for villosa Burm. , the North 
American species. 
