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EUROPEAN EARWIG (Forficula auricularia L.) 
Rhode Island A* E„ Stene (July IS): The only complaint, which has. reached 
this office during the present month is t>$ the increased 
a. „ivities in the European earwig colony in Newport, 
Residents of that city are complaining that the insect 
is present in unusually large numbers and is beginning to 
do a great deal of damage* 
Notes from the. Federal Horticultural Board (July 1): 
PESTS INTERCEPTED 
1. During the inspection of a shipmBnt of grapes from 
Argentina at the port of New York, May 13 t l92*+, there 
was found a eoccinellid which was identified by 
JJ)jv E, A. Schwarz of the Bureau of Entomology as 
Epilachna paenulat a Germ. Dr. Schwarz accompanied 
the reference slip. transmitting the identification 
with the following pertinent comment: "This is one 
of the phytophagous species of eoccinellid, the 
introduction of which into the United States is byrmo 
means desirable." 
2* A sapodilla taken in the baggage of a passenger 
arriving in New York May 7,1924, on the S # S. Surinam 
from Dominica B. W„ I., was found to be infested with 
larvae of the fruit-fly Anastrepha s erpentina Wied. 
This interception furnished what seems to be the 
first authentic record of the occurrence of Anastrepha 
"ser pent in ^W i.Qd*. ip Dominica a?, though -th ore. ere "•specimens 
in tho:NatioraT Musaucirfrera -Trinidad, W. "I., San" Juan, P.| 
Cayuga, Gu&t*, Anccn, C. Z, : . and Lima,. Fsra* 
In ships 1 stores in the steamer San Bruno arriving in 
Boston, April 6^ 1924,, a mango from Costa Rica Tas 
taken whiLh <was found to "be infested with fruit- fly 
larvae identified as Apastrepha di'stans Hendel. This 
species is noted by the specialist' making the 
determination as being a "rare, species*;" 
