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GRAPE 
GRAPE LEAF POLDER ( Desmia funeral is Hbn.) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (August 2k): Injured grape leaves received from 
Long Beach, Harrison County, southeastern Mississippi, on August 22. 
Also abundant on grapes at State College. 
California. G. H. Kaloostian (August 6): First adults of second generation 
observed at Fowler, in Fresno County, central California, on August 
5 and 6. A third-brood larva, about k days old, also observed on 
August 6. The insect is a new pest in this district, and has spread 
during the last two years more than 10 miles westward from the Sanger- 
Parlier districts. 
GRAPE BERRY MOTH ( Polychrosis vitoana Clem.) 
Ohio. G. A. Runner (August 23): Damage from the late b_rood threatening 
to be serious, owing to concentration on an extremely light crop of 
grapes in some localities. In vineyards bearing a full crop, per- 
centage of damaged grape berries apparently not greater than in 1937* 
SIX-SFOTTED GRAPE BEETLE (Pelidnota punctata L.) 
Pennsylvania. H. E. Hodgkiss (August 25): Spotted vine chafer plentiful 
but not so abundant as in some years. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (August 23): Specimens sent from Clay County, 
southern Nebraska, on July 25 » where they were attacking grapevines. 
APPLE TWIG BORER ( Schistoceros hamatus F.) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (August 2k): Adults received on August 22 from 
Long Beach, Harrison County, with the statement that the beetles had 
practically destroyed the top growth of a grape planting. 
GRAPE SAWFLY ( Erythraspides pygmaea Say) 
Massachusetts. A. I. Bourne (August 2k): Larvae found very numerous in a 
planting near the college in Amherst, Wotst-central Massachusetts. 
Pennsylvania. H. E. Hodgkiss (August 25): Grapevine sawfly causing some 
damage in the northeastern counties. 
GRAPE LEAFHOPPERS ( Srythroneura spp.) 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (August 8): Grape leafhopper 
(E. comes Say) doing considerable damage in some vineyards in Columbia 
County. 
