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ZINNIAS 
STALK BORER (Famipema sp. ) 
C. A« Weigel (July 29): A letter was received from New York 
with the report that this insect was attacking flowet gardens, 
chiefly zinnias. 
C. A, Weigel (July 7): A letter was received from Havre de 
Grace, Md, , where this insect was reported attacking zinnias, 
EUONYMUS 
EUONYMUS SCALE ( Chionaspis euonymi Comst. ) 
R. E« Horsey (July 17): Apparently our radical treatment, 
spring of 1922, of the evergreen Euonymus radicans vegeta, 
has destroyed the Euonymus scale; we cut the plants to a few 
inches of the ground and sprayed with scalecide. 
R» B. Lott (August 23): This scale has "been noted on a large 
planting at Red Bank, Monmouth County, 
NSECTS AFFECTING MAN AND DOMESTIC 
ANIMALS 
MAN 
HOUSE FLIES (Musca domestica L.) 
F* C, Bishopp (June 23): House flies were observed to "be 
fairly numerous in these localities and were causing annoyance 
"by entering residences, restaurants, etc. 
MOSqUITOES (Culicidae) 
John H* Fay (July 30) : Mosquitoes are less abundant in 
northern Middlesex County than last year. 
L» J* W« Jones (August 21): Mosquitoes are not numerous this 
season on the east side of Rochester. 
F« S* Charaberlin (August 6): This pest is very numerous owing 
to continued wet weather* 
F» C» Bishopp (July 26)* Yellow-fever mosquitoes are "becoming 
fairly numerous in t his vicinity (Dallas), and dengue fever is 
again manifesting itself in Texas. At least five cases have 
"been reported to the Health Department of Dallas, the first 
occurring about the middle of July, A number of cases have been 
reported from Denton, 
