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HAIRY CHINCH BUG (Missus hirtus Montd.) 
Connecticut. J. P. Johnson (September 23)' months of July and 
August were deficient in rainfall and the dry 
weather was conducive to an increase of this insect. Infestations 
reported from Hartford, New Haven, Hamden, West Haven, Stamford, 
and Greenwich. Much more abundant than usual. 
New York. M. D. Leonard (September 28): A fair infestation in progress 
on a large lawn reported. Earlier in the month the remnant of what 
must have been a bad infestation was seen by the writer on a lawn 
in Flushing. 
SOFT SCALE ( Coccus hesperidum L.) 
Maryland. E. N. Cory (August 28): On Pandanus sp. at Bel Air. 
A LEAF-CUTTING ANT ( Atta texana Buckley) 
Texas. R. K. Fletcher (September 12): Severe damage caused to shrubs 
in Smith County. 
COLUMBINE 
COLUMBINE LEAF MINER ( Phytomyza minuscula Gour.) 
New Jersey. M. D. Leonard (September 25): Several plants under obser- 
vation all season at Ridgewood, still show a fair number of mines 
in the leaves, and several large plants in another section of town, 
not previously examined, showed almost no leaf mines. 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentloy (September 21): Infestation general throughout 
the State. 
CRAPEMYRTLE 
CRAPEMYRTLE APHID ( Myzocallis kahawaluokalani Kirk. ) 
Mississippi. C. Lylo (September 25): Heavy infestations reported from 
the Meridian district. 
EUONYMUS 
EUONYMUS SCALE ( Chionaspis euonymi Comst.) 
Michigan. E. I. McDaniel (September 23): Reported from Detroit as 
infesting euonymus hedge. This pest does not normally winter 
over in Michigan. 
Ohio. E. W. Mendenhall (September 12): Seriously infesting euonymus 
plants at Springfield. 
