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boxwood 
BOXWOOD LEAF MIKES (Mo narthropalpus buxi Labou.) 
West Virginia. F. W. Craig (February 21): I am sending a twig from a boxwood 
infested with what I take to be the boxwood leaf miner, collected in the 
east end of the city of Charleston. (Det. W. Middleton.) 
CAMELLIA 
CAMELLIA SCALE ( Lepidcsaphes camelliae Hoke) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (February 21): Camellia .j aponica leaves showing a heavy 
infestation were received from Aberdeen, Monroe County, on February 16. 
TEA SCALE ( Fiorinia theae Green) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (February 21): Camellia .jap onica leaves showing more or 
less heavy infestation of the tea scale have been received during the 
past few weeks from Lauderdale, Amite, Copiah, and Monroe Counties. 
EITONYMUS 
EUONYMUS SCALE ( Chionaspis euonymi Const.) 
North Carolina. Z. P. Metcalf (February 19): The euonymus scale is unusually 
abundant in the eastern part of the State. 
Mississippi. J. Milton (February 19): The euonymus scale is very abundant on 
euonymus on the old Capitol Grounds in Jackson. 
NARCISSUS 
A BULB FLY ( Eumerus narcissi Smith) 
United States. R. Latta (January 19): The species is quite common in bulb 
districts in California, but only one specimen had been found in Oregon, 
on a large bulb ranch near Portland. In 1931 one pair was collected in 
a greenhouse on Long Island, N. Y. , by Blanton and Spruijt. During the 
past summer a single male was collected at Morning Sun, Iowa, by Helen 
Latta, from flowers near a bed of naturalized daffodils. 
OLEANDER 
POLKA DOT WASP MOTH ( Syntomeid a epilais Walk.) 
Florida, J. R. Watson (December 1933): We received larvae from as far north 
as Daytona Beach, where they were said to be very ab*«l&ant ^§¥. were 
sent in from Orlando, feeding on Carissa grand if lora ./ Continued to be 
injurious to oleanders all winter. Reports have come from as far north 
as Daytona Beach and Clermont, in Lake County. 
H. T. Fernald (February 14): Somebody from Gainesville last fall reported 
the injury to oleanders by the caterpillars of S. epilais Walk. var. 
jucundissima Dyar. This insect was also very abundant around Orlando. 
