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Alabama 
SOFT SCALE ( Coccus hesperidum L.) 
J. M. Robinson (March 22): The soft "brown scale is moder- 
ately abundant on ferns at Frisco City. 
Ohio 
IVY 
SMALL GREEN ROSE APHID (Myzaphis rosarum Walk.) 
E. W. Mendenhall (March 21): Young plants of English ivy 
in a greenhouse in Springfield are badly infested with green 
aphids, which are doing considerable damage. There is an 
abundance . 
Ohio 
LILAC 
OYSTER- SPELL SCALE (LepjLdosaphes ulmi L.) 
E, W, Mendenhall (March 3): The oyster-shell scale is general 
and abundant on lilac bark in Ohio. The limbs are crusted with 
scale in some places where the owner is careless. 
Alabama 
JAPONICA 
PURPLE SCALE ( Lepidosaphes beckii Newm.) 
J. M. Robinson (March 22): The purple scale is moderately 
abundant on Japonica at Monroeville. 
Pennsylvania 
PACHYSANDBA 
EUONYMUS SCALE ( Chionaspis euonymi Comst.) 
J. S. Houser (March 6): Specimens collected on Japanese 
spurge ( Pachysandra terminalis ) were exhibited at the 
La Fayette, Ind., meeting of the North Central States Entomol- 
ogists on March 6, 1930. These were collected by H. B. Barclay. 
INSECTS ATTACKING MAN AND 
DOMESTIC ANIMALS 
Missouri 
MAN 
Mosquitoes (Culicinae) 
L. Haseman (March 25): A number of cases have been reported 
where mosquitoes have left their overwintering harbors in 
basements and coal bins and migrated up into the bedrooms in 
