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On several occasions in the past 2 years, F. D, DeGant, of Cleveland, 
Ohio, has sent in specimens of an ichneumonid which he had reared, along with 
its v . r asp host, from rose stems in his garden. The parasite has "been identi- 
fied by R. A. Cushman as Perithous divinator (Rossi), a European species 
not heretofore recorded from North America, Grace Sandhouse has identified 
the wasp, with some question, as Bemphredon lethi.fer (Shuckard), a species 
recorded in European literature as one of the hosts of P. divinator . It lias 
not previously been recorded from North America, although the collection of 
the National Museum contains specimens frcm Rosedale, Mass.; Philadelphia! 
Pittsburgh, and North East, Pa.; Baltimore, Md.; Washington, D. C; Cleveland, 
and booster, Ohio; Detroit, Mich.; Chicago, 111.; and V/ebster G^ove, i.e. All 
but the Philadelphia specimen, which v&s captured in 1$'09> have been collected 
since 1922. Many of them were reared from rose or blackberry stems. 
Specimens reared from elm logs at M rristown, IT. J., and in 17 e stchester 
County, N. Y. , were identified as Sntedon leucogramma (Ratz.), a European 
species parasitic upon Ecooptogaster spp, , and not previously recorded fro~ 
America. (Det. A. B. G-ahan) 
The first record of the occurrence of the sawfly Prist iphora genicu - 
lata Htg. in the United States has been established by the identification of 
material in the collection of . the National Museum by H. K. Ross, of the Illi- 
nois State Laboratory of Natural History, The specimens are from North Adams , 
Mass., D e lhi and Haines Falls, N. Y. , and Mount Desert Island, Maine, and with 
one exception were reared from mountain ash, the first collection date being 
in 1926. 
A scale insect, Lepidosaphes chine ns is Chamb., was taken on orchids 
( Cymbidium s"Q,) in a glass house at Lincoln Parle, Los Angeles County, C a lif . , 
in July 193l!-. (Dctc H. Morrison) 
The first record in the United States of the sugarcane mite (T ar son - 
emus bancrofti Michael) comes from a quarantine greenhouse at Arlington Earm, 
Va. Since the discovery of the infestation, all the sugarcane in the vicinity 
of the infested house has been destroyed and the house has been fumigated. 
Note . — In October the mite was discovered on sorghum growing on experimental 
plats at Houma, La., Immediate steps were taken to eradicate the pest, which 
is seriously injurious to sugarcane in many tropica.1 countries and islands, 
L'r. Ewing reports the third record for the United States of Eatetran- 
ychus latus (Can. & Eanz.) in the identification of specimens collected on 
box.vood at Arlington Farm, Va. , on March 6, 193 1 -' . 
(C.FoW. Muesebeck, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. 
D. A.) 
