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CHINCH BTJS?( Blissus leucoot eras Say) 
J* v;„ Ingrain (May 22)? Chinch hugs were found in the majority 
cf the rice fields inspected at Stuttgart. They were present in 
such small numbers as to cause only slight damage. Hhere the 
fields had "been flooded the' insects were found floating on the 
surface of the water and only rarely feeding on the part of the 
rice plant above the water. 
SUCaRCANS BEETLE ( Euetheola rugiceps Lee. ) 
J« ".7, Ingram (May 15): Only a small amount of -sugarcane beetle 
injury was found in the rice fields around Kinder. The damage 
caused by these insects to rice in this section during the season 
of 1925 was unusually heavy, 
SUCARCAES 
SU&aRCANE 30RER ( Diatraea saccharalis Fab. ) ' 
XI, E. Hinds (Telegram dated June 27): Sugarcane borer is now 
concentrated in large numbers in early maturing corn with second 
generation beginning serious damage to cane. 
F R E S T d, N D S H • A D E - T R E S INSECTS 
MISCELLANEOUS FEEDERS 
a B&lCrKCfiM ( Oiketicus abboti Grote) 
E. '.'. Harned (June 21): Specimens of the bagworm, Oiketicus 
abbot ti T were found on blueberry at Nugent, Harrison County, 
on June 12, 
FOREST TENT CATERPILLAR ( Mai aco soma d jbsstri a Ebn,) 
R» H. Pettit (June 25)* A representative of the Department of 
Conservation has just come in and reports a widespread, serious 
outbreak of the armyworm of the forest, Mai aco soma disstria . 
in the upper part of the Lower Peninsula, Pie states that many hard- 
woods are being defoliated. 
MAPLE LEAF SPOT ( Cocidomyia ocel laris ,0,S. ) 
S» P. Felt (June 26): Cedidomyia ocellaris galls are sbmerhat 
numerous here ani there in the woodlands of the upper Hudson 
Valley. 
PINE BARIC LOUSE ( Cherme s pi nicorticis F itch^ 
R. 3. Lott (j-une 11): Very abundant on various species of Pinus , 
also reported on larch, at Trenton. 
E. P. Felt (June 26): The pine nark aphid, Chermes pini corticis . 
