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•APHIDS (Aphiidae) 
Mississippi J. p. ftislahko (July 20): Up to this time pecan aphids are 
moderately. abundant. Monellia costalis Tab. is more abund- 
ant; than MyzQcallis fumi-pencllus Fitch, which is now appear- 
ing with;some foliage injury on the Schley and Pabst varieties, 
Geor S ia .J-..B. Gill (July 26): The black pecan. aphid, (M. fumipen- 
nellus Fitch) is moderately abundant on pecan trees in south- 
ern Georgia. As a whole aphid injury in pecan orchards has 
,. . been very much reduced from former years. However, at this 
time there is a slight increase in the black pecan aphid and 
.before the close of the season this species may cause some 
.serious defoliation in some orchards in the southern part of 
Georgia. 
CITRUS 
CI THUS WHITEFLY ( Dialeurodes citri Ashm. ) 
Louisiana W. E. Hinds (July 25): The citrus whitefly is very abundant 
on citrus, privet, etc. 
CITRUS BLACKFLY ( Al euro can thus woglumi Ashby) 
Cuba Monthly Letter, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Depfe. of Agr. 
(June): C. P. Clausen, who left Washington last November for 
the Far East to continue his search for parasites of the citrus 
black fly, arrived in Havana, Cuba, on June 3 with a shipment 
of parasites, which will be liberated there. On May 31 Mr. 
Clausen inspected the infestations in Panama, where colonies 
of one of the jjarasites, Eretmocerus serjus Silv. , had been 
liberated in January, and reports that whereas at the time 
of liberation the trees were heavily infested, now citrus is 
almost entirely free from the black fly. 
SCALE INSECTS (Coccidae) 
Florida J. R„ Watson (July 24): The dry weather has also prevented 
the development of the entomogenous fungi, so that scale in- 
sects, including the purple scale and the Florida red scale, 
and also the whitely, are more abundant than usual at this 
season. 
E. T7„ Berger and G. B. Merrill (July 23): The purple scale, 
Lepidosanhes beckii Hewn.^. is very abundant in some groves 
at Mcintosh and Mi canopy.' /' 
