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C PLUMB INE 
COLUMBINE BORER ( Papaipcma pur pur i fascia G. & R. ) 
Massachusetts. A. I. Bourne (July 23): Several complaints of the activities of 
this "borer from various se.ctions of the State. 
A WEEVIL ( Conotrachelus anaglypt icus Say) 
Maryland. C. A. Weigel & E. E. Smith ( July) ! Eound at Beltsville infesting roots . 
and crowns of columbine, causing a wilting, yellowing, and ultimate death 
of plants "by severing the growth at the crowns and near the loaf "base. 
DOGWOOD 
RCUNDIIEADED APPLE TREE BORER ( Saperda Candida E. ) 
North Carolina, D, L. Wray (July 12): Doing extensive damage to dogwood trees in 
nurseries and in the woods in the vicinity of Asheville. It is quite 
serious to "budded pink dogwood. The larvae have killed limbs from 1 to. 
2 feet in length. A slight discoloration of the foliage is the first sign 
of the damaged twigs. In some places an armful of twigs containing larvae 
could he collected. 
EUONYMUS 
EUONYMUS SCALE ( Chionaspis euonymi Const.) 
Maryland. E. N. Cory (July 5): Reported as general in the State. 
Virginia. H. G. Walker (July 26): Present in the Norfolk district in about its 
usual abundance. 
Tennessee. G. M. Sentley (July 23): Sadly infesting Euonymus .japonica at Memphis, 
Shelby County, and Nashville, Davidson County, as reported on June -21. 
Texas. R. K, Eletcher (July 22): Heavily infested leaves and stem of a shrub from 
Harrison County, northeastern Texas. 
GLADIOLUS 
THRIPS (Thysanoptera) 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (July 26): Gladiolus thrips ( Taeniothrips simplex Morison) 
exceptionally abundant and destructive throughout the State, 
Kentucky. M. L. Didlake (July 25): Reported at Lexington on July 11. 
Washington. H. P. Lanchester (July 15): Onion thrips ( Thrips t abaci Lind. ), 
probably frr n adjacent onion fields being harvested, swept over gladiolus 
plantings at Walla Walla and ruined flower spikes. They left in a few days. 
Gladiolus thrips were present, but in very limited numbers. 
