PERN SCALE ( Kemichiona^i s asaidi strae Sim.) 
Okio E, W. Mendenhall (May U): Old plants and"carried over" plants 
at Springfield become infested with the fern scale and it is 
a hard one to treat, a soap solution seems to be a safer 
method -co treat the ferns. The calcium cyanide does not seem 
to be effective and nicotine sulphate seems to burn the 
plants. 
IRIS ROOT BORER (Macron cc_tu§_ onusta Grote) 
Indiana H* P. Diet? (May 18): The iris root borer bagan hatching on 
May 2, and has been hatching on mrm days up to the present 
time. Prom our observations and from reports that are being 
received this insect rill probably be more abundant than in 
1325. 
FOLLY 
HOLLY LEaP MINER ( Phytomyza il icis Curtis) 
New York E. P. Pelt (May 26): Appears to he able to maintain itself 
upon Long Island, since infested shrubs have been repeatedly 
observed from 1921 to date. The insect appears to be a very 
local one. 
LIILIES 
«. NOCTUID (Xan thopa stis timais Cram. (form, regnatrix ) 
Mississippi R. T7, Earned (May 22) ; R. ?« Calmer, Inspector for the Plant 
Board at Moss Foint,, reported serious injury to narcissus 
on May 1 by insects that have been identified by F, H. Benjamin 
as the larvae of this inscct Later Mr. Colmer sent more of 
the larvae that rere damaging narcissus and also some bulbs 
cf spider lillies taken from the same property that have 
probably been injured by those insects. Three of the bulbs 
received had holes in them made by an insect that had burrowed 
entirely through them, beginning at the surface of the soil 
and coming out at the bottom. 
RHODODENDRON 
EUROPEAN HORFEI ( Vesya crabro L. ) 
New York E* P. Pelt (May 26); A portion of a rhododendron stem some 2 
inches in diameter ^as apparently severely injured by this 
insect, there being numerous transverse girdlings, extending 
to the ^ood, several inches in length and suggesting very 
strongly crude work with a hand saw. The affected stem -as some 
2 inches in diameter. 
