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in central Indiana. *n one instance observed dragging crickets and 
grasshoppers into holes dug in the ground by them. 
STRAWBERRY ROOT WEEVIL ( Brachyrhinus ovatus L. ) 
Ohio. E. W. Mendenhall (August 5): Found girdling the tender shoots of the 
arborvitae trees in the nursery at Zanesville. (August 18): Some dam- 
age from girdling of trees in nursery at Zanesville. Strawberry plant- 
ation nearby. 
Michigan. R. Kutson (August 22): Reported as entering houses at South Haven 
on July 2*4, and at Frankfort and Whitehall on July 26. 
Washington. M. K. Hatch (July J>0): Considerable numbers of the two species 
(3. ovatus and B. sulc.tus F. ) reported in a house at Bremerton. 
AZALEA 
AZALEA SCALE ( Eriococcus azaleae Comst. ) 
Mississippi, N. D. Peets (August 2'-0 : Infestation of this scale found on 
August 5 on azalea plants in McComb, Pike County, south-central Miss- 
issippi. 
AZALEA LACEBUC- ( Ste^hanitis pyrioides Scott) 
New York. E. P. Felt (August 2J>) : Extremely abundant and injurious to 
azaleas in Sc-rsdale. 
CRAPEMYRTLE 
CRAPEMYRTLE APHID ( Myzocallis krhawaluokalani Kirk.) 
Georgia. T. **, Bissell (August 22): Very abundnnt and the plants heavily 
laden with moldy honeydow at Griffin, northwestern Georgia. No injury 
to foliage observed. 
DAHLIA 
SUNFLOWER WEEVIL ( Rhodobaenus tredecimpunctatus 111.) 
Louisiana. C. A. Weigel (June 29): Reported as boring into the bulbs of 
dahlias at Pineville, where a few were found in one field. (Det. by 
L. L. Buchanan.) 
DOGWOOD 
SAWFLIES ( Mac re irony tus cot. ) 
Pennsylvania. H. E. Hodgkiss (August 25): Larvae of two sawfiles (M. 
v.rianus Nort. and M. tarsatus Say) defoliated dogwood generally during 
August. 
