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IRIS 
STALK BORER (Papai n ema sp.) 
Pennsylvania C. A. V/eigel (July 23): Tnis insect was reported attacking 
fleur-de-lis at West Philadelphia. 
AN APHID (Aphis iridis DeG . ) 
California E. 0. Essig (August 17): This aphid has been imported from Europe 
and Mia Minor on I vis spp. and is a pest on the roots and crowns 
of nearly all varieties of cultivated and wild iris in the gardens. 
It has been hereffor many years, but I have not noticed a report 
of it. 
IRIS BORER ( Macron c ctua onusta C-rote) 
New York M. D. Leonard (August 2): Full-grown larvae were received with 
the report that they were d: i tie damage to a number 
of iris plants by boring through the steins, at Troy. 
Ohio K. A. Gossard (August 20): /letter from Cincinnati reported the 
iris borer to be destructive to cultivated iris. 
Indiana H. F. Dietz (July 16): The iris root-borer is a serious pest all 
over the State wherever iris is grown in ornamental plantings. 
It is invariably associated with the iris roct rot caused by 
Bacillus carotoy orus . which completes the destruction begun by 
the boner. Neither the insect nor the disease has been found 
alone, and the Dorer evidently carries the bacteria in its in- 
testinal track. 
J. J. Davis (August 22): The iris borer has been unusually preva- 
lent and destructive in Indiana this year. 
LIL/C 
LILAC BORER ( Podosesia syri npae Harris) 
New Jersey R. B. Lott (August 10): This borer has been noticed throughout 
this State attacking lilacs. 
LAPPET MOTH ( Tolype velleda Ccmst.) 
Ohio H. A. Gossard (August 20) : Tolype velleda were received from 
Massillon July 30 on quince and from Cincinnati August 11 on lilac. 
Ips quad r igutt atus. Fab * ' 
New York R. E. Horsey (July 17): YJe found these beetles in borer holes 
or under the bark of lilacs July 16. 
