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Believed to be worse than last year. Some of the plants have almost 
every leaf heavily mined and visibly affected. 
NOTE: P. minuscula is abundant throughout North America, wherever 
Aquilegia grows. It has been confused in American literature with 
P. aqu.il egiae Hardy, which probably does not occur in North America. 
(S. W. Prost, Ann, Ent. Soc. Amer. 23. pp. 457-460 193^*) 
Ail APHID ( My zu s essigi G. & P.) 
New Jersey. M. D. Leonard (September l6): A number of plants in a garden 
at Ridgewood, observed for several seasons, had almost no aphids 
until late in August, and early in September the infestation was still 
very light. This seems to be the common species in the State wherever 
observations have been made. 
DAHLIA 
A PLEA HOPPER ( Halticns bracteatus Say) 
Georgia. T. L. Bissell (September 2): Killing the loaves of some varieties 
of dahlia at Hapeville. 
A PLY ( Tephritis final is Locw) 
Georgia. T. L. Bissell (September 2): Plies observed ovipositing on dah- 
lia blooms today at Hapeville. Maggots work down add feed at the 
base of the petals. 
GLADIOLUS 
GLADIOLUS THRIPS ( Taeniothrips simplex Mori son) 
North Carol inn., Z. P. Metcalf (September 30) : Observed to be doing 
serious damage in Wilson County. 
Ohio. E. W. Mendenhall ( September 17 ) : Numerous in some of the gladiolus 
plantations at Delaware, Delaware County. 
Utah. G. P. Knowl ton (September l4) : Thrips have not been unusually 
abundant on gladiolus examined this season in northern Utah, 
HIBISCUS 
A PLANT BUG ( Corizus sidae P. ) 
Arkansas. W. P. Turner (September 12): All stages very abundant on cult- 
ivated hibiscus at Little Rock. Massed on the. seed pods and their 
petioles, .<xid so abundant as to produce an obvious staining of the 
foliage. (Let. by H. G. Barber.) 
