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Puerto Rico. G. N. Wolcott (June 29): Small infestations of the green aphid 
of citrus have been noted for a year or more, but this spring serious in- 
festations have been more common end appear to be increasing in intensity 
and extent. 
ORAHGE TORTRIX ( Tortr ix c itrana Tern.) 
California. H. J. Quayle (July 5): Ehere is a heavy infestation at Corona, 
Riverside County. For the past 2 or 3 weeks small worms have been making 
slight scars under and in the vicinity of the button. Mr. McGregor is 
of the opinion that this work is chiefly that of Platynota stultana Walsm. , 
but Mr. Basinger thinks that the infestations consist chiefly of the tor- 
trix. If such infestation continues at Corona and the worms bore into 
the fruit, it will become a matter of considerable importance, even in 
that territory. I am not anticipating, however, that there is going to 
be very much boring into the fruit; if it does occur it will be the first 
time to my knowledge that there has been any such work to any serious 
degree as far from the coast as Corona. We have these heavy infestations 
every 5 to 7 years, more or less. The damage will range from a few per- 
cent to about 25 to 30 percent of the crop. 
AVOCADO 
A SCARABAEID ( Serica fimbriata Lee.) 
California. H. J. Ryan (July ?k) : Adults attacking a grove of young avocados 
in the southern part of Los Angeles County caused enough injury to justify 
control measures. 
TRUCK-CROP I H SECTS 
BLISTER BEETLES (Meloidae) 
Connecticut. M. P. Zappe (July 23): 31ister beetles ( Epicauta cinerea margin - 
ata Fab.) are very abundant and are causing considerable injury in Nov; 
Haven County to beets, eggplant, and other vegetables. 
Kentucky. W. A. Price (July 25): Three species of blister beetles, the ash 
gray ( Macrobasis unicolor Kby. ) , the immaculate (M. immaculata Say), and 
the striped (E. vittata Fab.), are coinmon throughout the State, feeding 
on truck crops. 
Mississippi. J. M. Langston (July 23): A grower at Grenada, Grenada County, 
sent specimens of E. ler.miscata. Fab. to this office on July 2, with a 
report that they were causing considerable inj'iry to tomatoes. 
M. M. High (June 25): The three-lined blister beetle (E. lemnis - 
cata) was observed injuring potato and beets at Guntown and Tupelo. 
South Dakota.. H. C. Severin (July l6): Blister beetles have been severely 
damaging alfalfa, sweetclover, potato, caragana hedges, beans, beets, 
aud ash and cottonwood trees. The species concerned numbered about a dozen. 
