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GRAPEVINE APHID (Macrosiuhum illinoisensi s Shim,") I 
Mississippi H. W. Allen (July 23): ' Early in the present month the young ter- 
minal shoots of grape were heavily infested with the brown grape 
aphid at A. & M. College. They have now "become greatly reduced 
in numbers and are difficult to find. 
GiE£PE3PORg MOTH ( Oxyptilu s reriscelidactylus Pitch) 
Hew York C. P. Crosby and assistants: Larvae noted in several vineyards 
in Dutchess County, but are not causing serious damage. 
EIGHT-SPOTTED FORESTER (Alypia o ctomaculata Fab.) 
Indiana H. F. Dietz (July 24): The eight-spotted forester is more abund- 
ant than for several years past. It is quite abundant on grape, 
in the northern half of the State. 
GRAPE. LEAFHOPPER (Srythro neura come s. Say) 
Hew York C. R. Crosby and assistants: In Chautauqua County this insect 
has been greatly reduced in numbers by the recent rains and storms 
so that now they are rather scarce, while, in Monroe County they 
are beginning to become abundant. , 
Nebraska M. H. Swenk (June 15- July 10): ' From C2£.y County a report of an 
abundance of the grape leaf hopper on woodbine vines was received, 
BANDED LE4.FH0PPER ( Erythroneura t ricincta Fitch) 
Texas D. C. ■ Parrnan (June 25): The banded leafhopper has been doing 
heavy damage to grape arbors during the last four years and in 
many cases has killed out all of the vines except the Black Spanis 
or Mission grape. The leaves usually fall from the vines during 
the latter part of July or August. The damage this year at this 
date is apparently more than usual'. 
CURRANT 
CURRANT AND GOOSEBERRY MAGGOT. (EpocISra canadensis Loew) 
Oregon Don C. Mote (liay 23): Ten bushes heavily laden. Picked a quart 
and almost every currant, green and ripe, is stung, ard opening 
where blight is, found white worm, one-eighth inch in length, at 
Roseburg. 
CURRANT STEM-GIRDLER ( jpnus integer Norton) 
New York C. R. Crosby and assistants: The tins of over half the young 
shoots girdled in a number of plantings in Chautauqua County. 
